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Season 1 Ep. 5: Stake Your Claim
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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There used to be a time when you could strike out into the vast unexplored wilderness and stake your claim – but not anymore. Today, the story of ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:27
WTF is TFC?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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The myths and legend surrounding AMC's oldest trail crew, the TFC, aka Trail F*cking Crew.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 25:00
45: Dr. Amanda Foreman "The Ascent of Woman" & Annie Brown - The Decline of Women Coaches
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Amanda Foreman
Award-winning historian Dr. Amanda Foreman argues that a history that pushes women to the margins is an untruth that must be challenged. To this en...

Bought by KKRN, KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Apparition of Casey Stengel
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez has written a poignant and bittersweet baseball story with sporting, political and historical allusions- and the a...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Brazil. Soccer, Magical Realism and Alternate Reality
From: Richard Stull
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The great nation of Brazil’s ignominious 7-1 defeat by Germany at the World Cup semi-finals in July of 2014 in front of their home crowd was a thun...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
Cuban Baseball and Alternate History
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Cuba has a great baseball tradition going back 150 years - Luque, Dihigo, Minoso, Perez, El Duque, Canseco and many current stars hail from the sto...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Sticking the wicket: America's first co-ed sport returns to Brooklyn
From: Eric Winick
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Gabriel Vaughan and Piper Goodeve have set upon a singular mission: to revive the sport of croquet in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where it once thri...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 12:59
Ski Champion's Invention Transformed The Sport
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Hjalmar Hvam was a champion ski jumper., Credit: courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society
A Norwegian immigrant in Oregon invented the first quick-release ski binding, which made skiing safer and more appealing.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 2
The Alous: First Dominican/Latino/Baseball Family
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The fabulous Alou brothers Felipe, Matty and Jesus had more hits that any other brother trio in baseball history (over 5000) and all played in the...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Brow Anxiety (Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Decline of Football, Data and Reality
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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In Part 3 of our series on the decline of football, we talk to experts, examine new studies and try to answer the question, will football survive, ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 37:21
  • Purchases: 1
The Decline of Football and Boxing
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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In Part 2, we look at the rise and fall of boxing in America. At one time boxing rivaled baseball as the country's most popular sport, but then it ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 1
Jack London Got Game
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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American turn-of-the-20th century author Jack London was one of the founders of serious American sport fiction. Stemming from his own love of spor...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Furious Love
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century. Plus, a satire of college football. And, a conversation with the son of a scienc...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Muhammad Ali Goes to Mars: The Lost Interview from 1966
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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It was the summer of 1966 when a persistent 17-year-old with a high school radio show near Chicago got the interview of lifetime: Muhammad Ali. But...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WABE, KJZZ, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 6
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2009) Documentary Review
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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College football classic in 1968 eerily reflects and portends America's political and popular culture future.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Film Review: A League of Their Own (1992)
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Penny Marshall's film brings awareness and respect for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Women Warriors
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Women Warriors in antiquity set the bar high for future female role models.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Johnson and The Great "Race" Race
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Dunn (Discovered Babe Ruth), October 22, 1928
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Jack Norworth, September 1, 1959
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A look at the developement of Sports in the United States

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:19:32
Nothing To Cheer About
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A town is divided when presented with the idea of changing the school mascot.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KWIS 88.3 FM, KUOW, KRUA and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 6
Alaskan WW II 10th Mtn.Veterans Remember
From: Katie Bausler
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Memories of three members of an elite WW II mountaineering force.

Bought by WTIP, KMXT, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 4
Fledge Week July 4
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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July 4th in Cummington MA 1965 and Bolinas Ca 07

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2007
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 1