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Back to SearchOPTIONAL: What's in a (Nick)Name: Casual Othering in Baseball Nicknames
Episode 522
ABC:LHS #090-6 Many early baseball players ...
... were given nicknames that would never be tolerated today. We can never know how these players f…
1 month ago
Joseph Howard Berry, Jr.: Penn's Greatest Athlete with a Problematic Nickname
Episode 521
ABC:LHS #90-4 Joseph Howard Berry, Jr. ....
...excelled at baseball, football, track and field, and life. He is in two Halls of Fame. He is little…
1 month ago
Frank Bettger: A Successful Failure
Episode 520
ABC:LHS 090-3 Frank Bettger... (by guest host Rich Wilhelm)
...was a mediocre infielder for the Cardinals who blew out his shoulder and took to se…
1 month, 1 week ago
Frank Fleer Goes Pink
Episode 517
ABC:LHS #090-2 Frank Fleer...
...did not invent the gum that today carries his name, but his name has become synonymous with the pink chewy glob c…
1 month, 1 week ago
Francis Richter: Voice for Baseball
Episode 518
ABC:LHS #090-1 Francis Richter ...
...was a sportswriter who championed the new game through his newspaper work and the ubiquitous weekly Sportin…
1 month, 1 week ago
Play Ball!, Part 4: The Deep Bench – Oddballs, Owners, and Also-Rans
Episode 523
ABC:LHS #090 We start with three ballpark Franks...
...Francis Richter, whose writing helped to make the game respectable; he is in the Baseball H…
1 month, 1 week ago
Jáni Szántó: Violins, Exile, and Hope
Episode 515
BBB 059, part 3 Jáni Szántó...
...was a masterful violinist and instructor who escaped the Nazis with the help of Pope Pius XII and settled in Phi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wilhelm von Wymetal: Opera for Everyone
Episode 514
BBB:LHWS 059-2 Wilhelm von Wymetal ...
... was an Austrian emigree with a dueling scar who took his expertise with opera to Hollywood, where he di…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Oscar “Papa” Schwar: Kettledrum Virtuoso
Episode 512
BBB:LHWS 059-1 Oscar "Papa" Schwar ...
... was a German timpanist whom Leopold Stokowski praised as the best in the business. His rumblings and po…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Saving Music from the Nazis
Episode 516
BBB:LHWS 059 An estimated 1500 musicians ...
...fled central Europe's political turmoil in the 1930s and 1940s.
Tympani player Oscar “Papa” Schw…1 month, 3 weeks ago