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The Craziest Hot Dogs in Professional Baseball (Major League Edition)
“Take me out to the barf game, take me out to the puke!” ~Your obnoxious seven-year-old nephew who, you have to admit, probably has a bright parody career ahead of him America invented most of the...
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The Craziest Hot Dogs in Professional Baseball (Minor League Edition)
“You can’t get butts in the seat without a gimmick!” ~Bill Veeck As covered a few days ago, baseball and insane hot dogs go together like serial killers and women who send love letters to various...
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The Silliest Major League Baseball Team Names of All Time
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More of the Silliest Major League Baseball Team Names of All Time
“Let’s go Stogies! No wait that can’t be right, can it? We’re not honestly called that, right?” ~Pittsburgh Stogies fans A few weeks back, we talked to you about some late 19th and early 20th century...
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The Goofiest Baseball Player Names Of The 19th Century
“You can just call me Wild Bill. Holy shit, wait, you’re actually going to do that?” ~Wild Bill Widner We’ve talked about early baseball, and especially baseball in the 19th century, here before....
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More of the Goofiest Baseball Player Names Of The 19th Century
“Heh, guys, remember Dickie Flowers? AHHH HA HA HA.” ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt A few weeks back, we posted an article where we dug around the annals of Major League Baseball lore for...
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America’s Official* 2015 NLCS Preview
“Trust us, it’s much more exciting when you’ve gotten a few drinks in you.” ~MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Baseball is America’s pastime, mainly because it was the first sport to establish itself here...
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Even More of the Goofiest Baseball Player Names of the 19th Century
“YOU GUYS, CANNONBALL TITCOMB!” ~Official Memo Sent To Affotd.com Staff Regarding Part 2 Of Our Goofy Baseball Names Articles We’ve sprinkled our site over the past few weeks with articles about...
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The National League Blacklisting of 1881
“Listen, we’re just sort of winging this as we go along.” ~1800s Major League Baseball Commissioners We’ve been talking a lot about baseball in the past several months, which comes as a bit of a...
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The History of the Senior Professional Baseball Association
“Even to make love, you need experience.” ~Pedro Ramos, 54-year-old pitcher for the Senior Professional Baseball Association. Seriously. As a nation, we have more options for live sporting events then...
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Ray Caldwell: The Alcoholic Lightning Rod of Major League Baseball
“*gets hit by lightning* *chugs a beer* Don’t worry guys, I’m good.” ~Ray Caldwell Most history curriculums are pretty bad at telling us about the crazy things that have actually happened in the...
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The Craziest Hot Dogs in Professional Baseball (Major League Edition)
“Take me out to the barf game, take me out to the puke!” ~Your obnoxious seven-year-old nephew who, you have to admit, probably has a bright parody career ahead of him America invented most of the...
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