Unsolicited Sports History
History of sports you did not need or even ask for. Ben Darnell takes up your time by telling you the great sports stories of the past that have been forgotten by time.
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July 7, 2020 • 6 min
How did the nickname Redskin start for the Washington NFL team?
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June 15, 2020 • 12 min
Who won the first triple crown? Was it a crown? Why those races? Who is Sir Barton?
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June 4, 2020 • 8 min
25 Years ago, MLB had to come back and face the fans after denying them baseball in 1994. Here is how it went down.
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May 17, 2020 • 13 min
It took stealing another school's mascot to come up with one of their own. This is the story of how UCONN got Jonathon.
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April 24, 2020 • 10 min
A short history of illegal pinball and how my dad got caught up in it.
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March 25, 2020 • 7 min
Why do Umpires do the things they do?
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March 20, 2020 • 7 min
Where did sign-stealing in baseball begin? Hartford, CT
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February 25, 2020 • 12 min
How the Harlem Globetrotters came to be and integrate basketball in the NBA, USA, throughout the world.
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January 27, 2020 • 8 min
Hartford, CT residents may have no idea they're walking on top of baseball history. Bulkely Bridge, Bulkely High. You ever wonder who that Bulkely guy was?
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January 12, 2020 • 12 min
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December 31, 2019 • 10 min
Zamboni, high school dropout turned ice-making genius.
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December 29, 2019 • 8 min
A foot of snow at kickoff, the NFL championship on the line, 12,000 in attendance. One of the greatest snow games ever played.
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December 29, 2019 • 7 min
Thanksgiving football in America is almost as old as Thanksgiving in America.
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December 29, 2019 • 11 min
3 sports ghost stories that are TRUE. Listen at your own risk.
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December 29, 2019 • 5 min
3 sports ghost stories that are TRUE. Listen at your own risk.
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December 29, 2019 • 11 min
For 1 year, Hartford had an NFL team.
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