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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Dogpiles Are How Baseball Teams Celebrate Big Wins And Sometimes Hurt Themselves
Description: Today in 1982, the World Series St. Louis Cardinals made baseball history with the first major league team-wide dogpile. We explain how players who are celebrating a big moment can sometimes inadvertently hurt each other. Plus: today in 1973, the opening of the Sydney Opera House, where a chicken in an opera once landed on top of a cellist.
UVA Baseball Players Attest: Dogpiles Come With Temporary Pain, But Forever Joy (University of Virginia)Â
The art of the dogpile (ABC News)
Interesting facts about the Sydney Opera House (Sydney Opera House)
Crowdsounds courtesy Pi...