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Announcing: It's Just a Game

About the book: Similar to how H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights uses high school football in Texas as a lens to look at society, Brian Carriveau’s It’s Just a Game observes adult amateur baseball in Wisconsin as a means to examine small-town America. The non-fiction book,...

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Home Talent League Alum Eyes Up the NFL

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There’s plenty of notable players who cut their teeth in Wisconsin’s Home Talent League before reaching Major League baseball. Perhaps most famous is Cazenovia’s Ryne Duren, a three-time all-star with the New York Yankees who led the American League in saves in 1958 and won a World Series the same season. There was Black Earth’s Gene Brabender who won a World Series as a pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles in 1966. Richland Center’s Vern Geishert is notable for being part …

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