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The Hy Peskin Archives, Vol. 2

A quick note to start: We’ve made some adjustments to the site’s coding. If anything looks amiss, please let me know. Thanks. Now then: Today we have another batch of …

Iowa: the Hawkeye Museum State

Ten years ago, in the middle of a month-long cross-country road trip, I stopped in Shelby, Montana, where I checked out the Marias Museum — a tiny facility devoted to …

The Received Word, Updated

New ESPN column today — the long-awaited prototypes installment. Here’s the link. The prototypes column probably wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Bill Henderson, who’s just published a …

Houston, We Have No Problem Whatsoever

For years, if I’ve needed an old Astros photo, the first place I’ve looked has been Astros Daily, an excellent blog with loads of great images. What I hadn’t realized, …

Paternity Case

As you can see, the ticket stub shown at right is from 34 years ago, almost to the day. That date happened to be Father’s Day, 1973 — a day …

Sleeveless in Chicago

Before we get started with today’s entry: I ended up making an important addition to yesterday’s ESPN column at about noon eastern. If you read it prior to then and …

Put the Cat Out in the Hall and Rumple Up the Room

For a couple of years now, this 1968 SI cover has been a bit of a holy grail for me, because the players shown behind Pistol Pete are wearing the …

Leadership

A few disclaimers to start off the year: First, I watched exactly zero football over the holiday weekend, so you’ll have to forgive me if I missed a few things. …

Aggie Antiquities

Another university is doing a public service by putting its visual history on the web. Reader Dan Hardin has the details: Texas A&M has an ongoing project to digitize historic …