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Sridhar Pappu

Anthems

Days after Bob Gibson once again put his team in position to win the World Series, he stood with his teammates in Tiger Stadium. He didn’t…

5 min readOct 5, 2017

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Anthems

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Sridhar Pappu

Unclenched Fists

In the summer of 1970, the editors of SPORT proclaimed that the “political awakening of the American athlete, we believe, began with the…

6 min readOct 5, 2017

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Unclenched Fists

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Sridhar Pappu

Out There

“You guys are wrong. I’m telling you,” Milt Pappas said to his Cincinnati Reds teammates in the clubhouse of Crosley Field, “there’s no…

5 min readOct 5, 2017

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Out There

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Sridhar Pappu

8:45

“It was 8:45 on Saturday and the big guy had done it.” Dwight Chapin, then in his second year as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times…

6 min readOct 5, 2017

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8:45

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Into the City of Ashes

On the afternoon of July 24, 1967, several members of the Detroit Tigers stood on a yacht that had been docked at a private club in Grosse…

5 min readOct 5, 2017

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Into the City of Ashes

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Sridhar Pappu

World’s Finest

My Life With and Without the Supermen.

18 min readNov 24, 2015

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Hello to All That

It was early August and it had begun to grow dark as I stood on the elevated platform of Avenue U, set in what some consider the backwater…

11 min readSep 10, 2015

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Hello to All That

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Sridhar Pappu

My Mother’s Many Lives

From Madras to Miami of Ohio, my mother was never — and always — home

6 min readMay 8, 2015

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My Mother’s Many Lives

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Sridhar Pappu

Sridhar Pappu

Journalist, Author of The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and the end of Baseball’s Golden Age — October, 2017. sridharpappu.com

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