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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Harlem Globetrotters are now in their centennial season. In a sport that once disdained on-court joy, for decades the team provided something else: a clever, buoyant blend of athletic prowess, humor and just plain fun…with some help from the UCLA Bruins: newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/har...

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Will Venable has the Chicago White Sox ahead of schedule One of two Black managers in MLB, son of major leaguer is leading one of league’s greatest year-to-year turnarounds. My profile for Andscape: andscape.com/features/wil...

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

As a former media columnist who covered the tabloid wars, watching a predatory hedge fund continually gut the Daily News is heart-wrenching. Everyone there cared deeply about this city and their paper—the people’s paper. My heart goes out to them. New York is lesser for this.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

@brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social, thanks for your comments about book writing on the pod today. For my first one, I was sooo obsessed with hitting the daily word count. For this one, that number has dropped, but the prose is so much cleaner…

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Taylor Sheridan was the cornerstone of Paramount’s streaming future. Then came the the new bosses. My profile on his rise to television power player for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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How Taylor Sheridan Created America’s Most Popular TV Show

Inside Paramount’s “Yellowstone” juggernaut

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This is the letter that #Bengals owner Mike Brown wrote me in 1992. I had asked his counsel on whether to forgo architecture school and pursue a course that would lead to become an NFL GM. It’s real, heartfelt and practical. In other words, Mike Brown. Happy Birthday!

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Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

1915, the day they changed their name to the Cleveland Indians. There’s nothing honorific about this.

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The truth is the White Male Novelist was preeminent for more than a century *because* he represented the unfettered human, our Zeus, and Zeus's problems (whether internal or external) represented the human condition, our kernel crisis, so hells yeah, White Man write! That was always bullshit.

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Mel Allen on Dave Parker in 1985: “Number 39 is Mighty Fine!” An understatement for the ages…

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The world is lesser without Dave Parker. They’ll talk about a lot of on-field things when he goes into the Hall. But we owe him a debt for what he did for a generation of Black players. My 2024 piece for @espn.com’s Andscape: andscape.com/features/dav... :

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Dave Parker is a father figure to Black MLB legends

Dave Parker had prepped Eric Davis for this. Davis had earned this moment — ready to come through where his baseball father had failed. Parker had just failed. …

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This is Eric Davis doing something awesome for the #Reds in 1988. Because that’s what Eric Davis is: Awesome. youtu.be/_DkdFUNFo_g?...

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Eric Davis (Reds) Hits a Homerun off Len Lancaster (Cubs) (1988)

YouTube video by Baseball Ruski

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Because of @jeffpearlman.bsky.social’s PressBox Chronicles on the 1984 #Padres, YouTube fed me this tonight. Glorious. Just F—in glorious. youtu.be/fuJZ3gYrRVA?...

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8/12/1984: Benches empty again in Padres-Braves 9th

YouTube video by MLB Vault

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I love Chicago State—its faculty. Its students. What’s happening here is truly, truly terrible.

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The world is terrible. But Reuters bringing on badass Michael “Nuke” Learmonth is not! What an amazing get for an amazing organization!

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Trump welcomes 49 white Afrikaners today as “refugees” from South Africa… The racism is a feature, not a bug.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

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Daniel Bice

Daniel Bice is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Watchdog team.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books

A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 24/04/2025

They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall.org · 21/04/2025

A brush with immortality. The Hall of Fame Yearbook, featuring cover art by James Fiorentino, is now available online and at the Museum. ow.ly/rAaR50VEFxc Receive a free copy with your Museum Membership: baseballhall.org/join

Cover of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's 2025 Yearbook features painted portraits, clockwise from left, of inductees Dave Parker, Dick Allen, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 19/04/2025

"At Michigan, students have been told the casualties include orientation events for new Latino, Arab and Asian American students, along with the LEAD Scholars program, a financial aid award for Black, Latino and Native American students." These things harm no one. He just wants nonwhite suffering.

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DEI rollbacks hit campus support systems for students of color

As U.S. colleges are pulling back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose campus mentors, move-in events, scholarships and diversity offices where...

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here. www.kqed.org/news/1203596...

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/04/2025

The best thing to ever happen to Pablo… Leaving ESPN He’s good at this!

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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Major League Baseball and the Dodgers will be lavishing praise on Jackie Robinson today. Spare me. These same folks have had nothing to say as the Trump administration tries to erase Robinson and everything he fought for. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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How to honor Jackie Robinson? Defend his legacy from those who wish to erase him. | Opinion

Jackie Robinson Day this year comes just a few weeks after the Trump administration tried to erase the baseball icon and American hero.

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Graig Kreindler @graigkreindler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On this day in 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson bravely walked through that door and changed this country for the better. Here’s my painting of the great man at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.

Here’s my painting of Jackie Robinson walking to the plate at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

For people who want to bring back cursive…spend your Sunday reading a bunch of these. #booklife #mlb #yankees #redsox #baberuth

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The podcast conversation we all need right now….

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Trump's immigration crackdown is not about law & order. He has a vendetta against immigrants who followed the law, too His EOs threaten to punish legal immigrants by doubling their taxes (invoking a never-used 1934 law); expatriating their kids; and blocking them from the US entirely wapo.st/4hkbEB6

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Opinion | Trump’s anti-immigrant vendetta starts with those here legally

He’s not just going after foreigners who break the law.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Many of us have seen previews of Yuriko Romer's outstanding "Diamond Diplomacy" film project on US-Japan baseball ties. Her previously approved grant funding is now in limbo because of Trump's awful and cruel cuts to NEH.

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Seth Wickersham @sethwickersham.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

AMERICAN KINGS, a varied and thorough look at what it means to be a quarterback, will be out 9/9. Waterfield, Elway, Unitas, Caleb Williams, Moon, Manning (and Manning, Manning and Manning), Steve Young, Colin Hurley, Shack Harris, Vanita Krouch, and more! www.amazon.com/American-Kin...

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Worrell card was in my very first 87 pack! It was the first pack I remember buying in the summer that I found baseball. 87 was my year. Eric Davis’ year. I love these cards and these packs. Thanks for posting!

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall.org · 27/03/2025

Share if you think Opening Day should be a holiday.

Teams line up for Opening Day introductions at Fenway Park as four military jets fly overhead. An American flag is draped over the Green Monster in left field. (Winslow Townson/MLB Photos)

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

@kenli729.bsky.social, the man who gave us “The Fast and the Furious” franchise on his Subaru Outback: “It’s Dope!”

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My baseball. My year. My man. God bless Eric the Red.

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

No one has ever explained to me why the #reds which hosted the first two Civil Rights Games—which they should bring back—and is so active with its Urban Urban Academy, doesn’t wear Cincinnati Tigers Negro League uniforms once a year.

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Jackie Robinson stealing home in the eighth inning of Game One of the 1955 World Series

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Sridhar Pappu @sridharpappu.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Think the Yankees beard move was big? Let’s go back to 1999 when Greg Vaughn dragged the Reds into the modern age. From @msheldon.bsky.social: www.mlb.com/amp/news/gre...

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Greg Vaughn Reds' facial hair policyTwitter IconFacebook IconInstagram icon

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