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While lectures and history takes a little breather this December, we're serving up something special for you,

a three-part series posted simultaneously that dives into American baseball's rich, fascinating history.

Baseball isn't just a sport. It's a window into our culture, struggles,

and triumphs. In this lecture from October 2021, Pepperdine University professor Loretta Honeycutt

steps up to the plate to teach us about baseball during the Great Depression. More after this.

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For today, we'll be doing again our normal theme of baseball is American history.

But specifically today we're going to focus on what I've called the years of Ballyhoo

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