Baseball historian Paul Dickson looks into the evolution of signing in baseball and how it’s impacted the game, The Hidden Language of Baseball. David Kushner goes behind the scenes of one of the most successful video game franchises in history - Doom and Quake, Masters of Doom. David Von Drehle looks into the 1911 fire at the triangle Shirt Waist factory in Greenwich Village and its influence on the labor reform movement, The Triangle. And Emmy Award winner Jon Alpert discusses his HBO documentary Latin Kings.
Paul Dickson
Baseball historian Paul Dickson looks into the evolution of signing in baseball and how it’s impacted the game, The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime.
Music: Baseball Soundtrack Clubhouse Stomp (John Colby) performed by New York Hawks Take Me ...
Music: Baseball Soundtrack Clubhouse Stomp (John Colby) performed by New York Hawks Take Me ...
David Kushner
David Kushner goes behind the scenes of one of the most successful video game franchises in history - Doom and Quake, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.
Music: Bang On A Can “Escalator”
Euphone “Fallout”
Music: Bang On A Can “Escalator”
Euphone “Fallout”
David Von Drehle
David Von Drehle looks into the 1911 fire at the triangle Shirt Waist factory in Greenwich Village and its influence on the labor reform movement, The Triangle: The Fire That Shaped America.
Music: Seabiscuit Soundtrack composer Randy Newman
David Von Drehle will be reading and signing books
September 3, 2003
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Music: Seabiscuit Soundtrack composer Randy Newman
David Von Drehle will be reading and signing books
September 3, 2003
105 ...
Jon Alpert
Emmy Award winner Jon Alpert on his HBO documentary Latin Kings that tracks the life of Antonio "King Tone" Fernandeza the former leader of the Latino gang.
Music: The Way of A Gun Soundtrack composer Jon Kraemer
Music: The Way of A Gun Soundtrack composer Jon Kraemer
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