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adminDorri Partain Contributor Royals Stadium was brand-spanking new when Kansas City hosted the 1973 All-Star Game. Votes for the selected players were tabulated using a ballot sponsored by the Gillette…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, named for baseball’s founder Abner Doubleday, is our next stop as we tour the fields that contribute heavily to the history…
adminDorri Partain Contributor Batter up! Want to play ball but don’t have a field or enough players? Before the advent of video games, with their colorful graphics and realistic interactions,…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher While there might not be live baseball due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we here at the House of News are continuing our series of historic postcards dedicated…
adminDorri Partain Contributor Me and my RC, and the 1976 MLB All-Star team. To commemorate players featured in the 1976 All-Star game, Royal Crown Cola (RC) produced a series of…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Continuing our tour of old ballyards across the country— and the fact this is probably some of the only baseball content being generated—this week, we stop at…
adminDorri Partain Contributor Don’t forget the Guy’s- Guy’s Potato Chips, for this special offer. Inside specially marked bags, chip munchers could find one of twenty different pin-back buttons featuring Major…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week we have a bit of a flashback in terms of long-forgotten ball yards. We’re staying in St. Louis for a rundown on Stars Park that…
adminDorri Partain Contributor Decades before television and the internet, folks relied on radio for news and entertainment. Credited to Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), the radio receiver quickly became a…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher The description on the back of this chrome-style postcard reads, “Civic Center and Gateway Arch. Busch Memorial Stadium and the world famous Gateway Arch embrace St. Louis…
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