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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Baseball Week: Germany Schaefer, The Baseball Player Who Stole First Base
Description: This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about the old ball game. In this episode from August 2021, the story of a very strange thing that happened in a baseball game: a guy on second base ran backwards and stole first base, the base he'd just been on. Plus: why some people end up celebrating music legend Louis Armstrong's birthday a month late.
Germany Schaefer (Society for American Baseball Research)
FAQ (Louis Armstrong House via Archive.org)
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