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John Le Carre's first novel Call for the Dead (1961) and Sidney Lumet's movie based on the novel The Deadly Affair (1967), both use Marlowe's Edward II in climactic senes [...]

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig formed the most feared batting twosome in the history of baseball. Batting third and fourth, they served as the heart of the great Yankee teams [...]

George Roy, Steven Stern, and David Harmon. Baseball When It Was a Game. New York: Black Canyon Productions in association with HBO Sports. 1992 and 2000. Editor, George Roy. This [...]

Detective or mystery stories involve the solution of crimes through the meticulous sifting or details involving the time the crime was committed and the circumstances surrounding it. Numbers lie at [...]

This article will trace the interest of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the creator of Sherlock Holmes, in baseball as a sometime-participant, an avid fan, and a zealous promoter of [...]

On Saturday, August 26, 1939, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds played a double-header at Ebbets Field. The opening game is noted for being the first televised major-league game and [...]

George Roy and Steven Stern. Mantle. HBO Sports, 2005. The HBO film Mantle does not offer significant new material concerning the Yankee great, but it puts the events of his [...]

In 1946, the West Coast Negro Baseball League was organized to exhibit black baseball to the Pacific region. The teams included the Portland Rosebuds (owned by Jesse Owens), Oakland Larks, [...]

Perhaps the most revered number and jersey in baseball history belongs to Jackie Robinson, who wore number 42 throughout his 10-year career with the Dodgers. As John Odell has said, [...]

The Old Wives Tale contains a longstanding crux in the scene dealing with the controversy over the burial of Jack in sanctified ground. In the first and only quarto edition, [...]

Presents information on the play "The Spanish Tragedy," by Thomas Kyd. Background on the language used in the play; Influence of the play on Thomas Dekker's "Satiromastix"; Comparison of "The Spanish Tragedy" with "Satiromastix."

A slow rise and a quick fall The following short history of the Hawaii Winter League does not attempt to trace the pennant races or to detail the feats of [...]