"A Page from Baseball’s Past" was one of the longest running pre-game shows in the history of broadcasting major league baseball (26 years). You can now subscribe to an enhanced electronic text version, "Pages from Baseball’s Past." The basic principle of "Pages from Baseball’s Past" is to simply tell a good baseball story that is also true and well researched. The final key component is to keep i
t brief, not to overwhelm the readers with a long research article but to simply tell a good story in a few pages. It is meant to be more entertainment than education, but I would consider it a failure if it weren’t also gently teaching the readership about the history of the game, which is in part learning the cultural history of our country. My grandfather was born in 1884 and passed in 1988. He had a lot to share, and his stories were how I first learned about the history of the game and became interested in it. Those stories taught me a lot, but really, first and foremost, they were interesting stories. A subscription covers 101 stories a year, with a cost of $21 a year (2 years for $40). Subscription page is:
http://baseballspast.coffeecup.com/
