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    Smoky Joe & Tris & the anti-catholic myth

    Someone who was listening to the Red Sox on the radio today told me that the announcers brought up the 1912 anti-catholic story. Smoky Joe Wood and Tris Speaker were not anti-catholic. This myth is discussed in the book "Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend." Smoky Joe Wood and...
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    Red Sox Minor League history: Joe Wood, Jr. interview on the 1940's

    I heard on the radio that Baseball Hall of Fame member Ralph Kiner died yesterday at age 91. My father, Joe Wood, Jr (son of Smoky Joe Wood) once threw a no-hitter in the Red Sox minor league system. The last batter he faced in this no-hitter was a young Ralph Kiner. I learned that when I was...
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    "Smoky Joe Wood" baseball book wins SABR award

    It was announced yesterday that "Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend" has won the Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal. Basically that means that it is judged by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) as the best book on baseball history for 2013.  see...
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    Do you want to help end the Fox Saturday blackouts?

    I hear that there will be even more Fox Saturday blackouts this summer. I believe we can put an end to them if we band together. If we wait for the FCC to do something it may never happen. What we need to do is watch the first baseball games that Fox broadcasts this year and make a list of the...
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