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Send us Fan Mail Andrew Miller joins us again on The History Things Podcast, this time talking about some early baseball history! Andrew is a big baseball geek and devoted Detroit Tigers fan, and he joins us to talk about the moment Major League Baseball came of age at the turn of the 20th century! Known as the Dead Ball Era, the period between 1900 and 1920 was a time of great change in baseball and it set the stage and possibly created the magic that became the game we know and ...
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