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On the Porch: Dr. James Wood – Sports Around the World

Posted by Aaron Johnson | Jul 5, 2026 | On The Porch

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James Wood is currently Professor of Latin American and modern world history at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the author of The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851 and the co-editor of “Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations”, now in its fifth edition with Rowman and Littlefield. As a Fulbright scholar for Chile in 2016 he was a visiting professor at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago (where he observed Chilean student activism up close).

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On the Porch: Tom Wolf – Baseball in the Roaring Twenties

Posted by Aaron Johnson | Nov 2, 2025 | On The Porch

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Thomas Wolf is the author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Nebraska, 2020), finalist for the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, and coauthor, with Patricia Bryan, of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland.

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One Strike at a Time: Chapel Hill’s Jackson Hicks Keeps Baseball Dreams Alive

Posted by Staff | Apr 26, 2022 | Professional, Sports

Written by JOHN BAUMAN Jackson Hicks remembers the first time he thought he was taking off his...

MLB Owners Lock Out Players, 1st Work Stoppage Since 1995

Posted by Associated Press | Dec 2, 2021 | World

Written by RONALD BLUM and STEPHEN HAWKINS Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked...

Chansky’s Notebook: Slanted Series

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 21, 2021 | Sports, Sports Notebook

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MLB Players Taking Visible Stance on Social Justice

Posted by Associated Press | Jul 22, 2020 | World

Major League Baseball hasn’t always been at the forefront of the social justice movement in recent years, with leagues like the NBA and NFL usually taking center stage. But in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis...