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]]> How Baseball Got Its Groove Back in the Turbulent 1960s https://brewminate.com/how-baseball-got-its-groove-back-in-the-turbulent-1960s/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:25:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=96855 New franchises, colorful characters, and the ‘Miracle Mets’ gave new life to a sport grown stodgy. When examining

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]]> How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Turned Baseball into a National Sensation https://brewminate.com/how-the-1869-cincinnati-red-stockings-turned-baseball-into-a-national-sensation/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:22:44 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=92058 The Red Stockings made professionalism – which had been previously frowned upon – acceptable to the American public.

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