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What was the first baseball card ever made?
If ever there was going to be an industry that would have nailed down the precise first of its kind, it would be baseball cards. After all, the hobby is practically built upon carefully constructed ...
Plenty of Chicago lore — and heartstring tugs — at Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
A Thanksgiving visit to Cooperstown, New York necessitated a grudging stop at the Baseball Hall of Fame. What I found out ...
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Today-History-Dec30
In 1903, 602 people died when fire destroyed the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago. In 1907, the Mills Commission issued its final report concluding that Abner Doubleday invented baseball -- a finding that ...
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‘I can’t even sleep at night’: Li’l Abner residents pack up, ponder futures
SWEETWATER, Fla. – Residents of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park are packing up as they prepare to face eviction in the new year. The homes at the sprawling Sweetwater park, home to about a ...
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Li’l Abner residents call evictions ‘illegal and unconscionable’ in new suit
SWEETWATER, Fla. – A little more than a month after receiving letters ordering them to move out, sparking protests, residents of the sprawling Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater are ...
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5 days before Christmas in 1860, SC seceded. Here's what Charleston was like that holiday.
Capt. Abner Doubleday, who today is generally — though perhaps incorrectly — credited with inventing the game of baseball, later wrote: “Anderson approached me as I advanced, and said ...
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Sweetwater mobile park residents join class action lawsuit as fight continues to keep homes
Nearly 200 residents of Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater have signed onto a class action lawsuit as they fought against being vacated from their homes. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of ...