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Organised youth baseball was at its absolute peak in the late nineteen-sixties. Nearly every American town had a programme, the fields were busy every evening from spring to…
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There is a specific moment, four years after this one, when American wine stopped being a joke - a blind tasting in Paris in 1976 in which French…
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For about thirty years roller derby was a fixture of American television and arenas, and then it disappeared so completely that when it came back decades later almost…
Of all the things people argue about between Britain and the United States, this one has the clearest answer and the most confident wrong assumptions.
The accusation is familiar. Americans…
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A boy in the pit, a grease pencil and your shoe as a deposit. Here are fourteen.
1. The Pins Were Reset by a Machine and Before That…
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Posted rankings, public team selection, and no water. Here are twelve.
1. Teams Were Picked by Two Children Standing in Front of Everybody Else
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Two captains…