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Baseball

Shep was a baseball fan, often telling stories of his 'old man' and the Chicago White Sox. In 1964-65 he appeared at Yankee Stadium as part of vaguely known "Three Ring" baseball league. He visited Fenway Park in Boston to do a segment for his 1969 series 'Rear Bumper" a series of shorts to 'fill time' on PBS. In 1987 he made a video "The Chicago White Sox - "A Visual History"

Related Plots and Story Lines Used

Category	Date	Title	Comments	Time
• Movies		Chicago White Sox - A Visual History
• Television		Fenway Park (Date Approx)
• Television		Rear Bumper
• General Topics		Chicago White Sox
• General Topics		Three Ring Baseball League

Where Shep Made Reference To This Subject

Category	Date	Title	Time
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• Radio	June 18, 1960	Wet Blankets, Protest Marches, Machine People, White Sox Scoreboard
• Radio	February 22, 1961	Civil War Centennial Pitch - Telling the Truth
• Radio	April 24, 1963	Casey at the Bat
• Radio	June 20, 1964	Summer Solstice - Rader in the Florida Swamps, Red Garter Dixieland Band / Summer Job, Toledo Mudhens Play-by-Play
• Radio	August 15, 1964	N.Y. A Summer Festival; The Yankees; Your Father's Mustache Band / Shep in Munich; Uncle Carl's Teeth
• Radio	June 4, 1965	Playing Baseball for United Brethren
• Radio	June 26, 1965	Graduation Day
• Radio	July 17, 1965	Baseball Stories, Great Ice Cream Riot / Moments of Fear, Weekend Pass Fistfight
• Radio	August 24, 1965	Left- and Right-Handedness
• Radio	August 28, 1965	Building first radio with the Old Man / The Lure of Defeat, The Mets, Enlisting
• Radio	October 30, 1965	Halloween Show
• Radio	1965	The Magic of Radio
• Radio	May 9, 1966	Fat Pains and Tight Underwear
• Radio	June 18, 1966	Baseball
• Radio	June 29, 1966	Disorganized Baseball
• Radio	July 12, 1966	Bum Poems, Game Called on Account of Frogs
• Radio	July 23, 1966	Forced March Through the Ozarks with Gasser & Goldberg
• Radio	August 27, 1966	Cookie Duster Dustup, Lou Gehrig
• Radio	October 16, 1969	Da Mets - World Champs?!?
• Radio	April 15, 1970	WRUC FM - Ursinus College Radio
• Radio	August 26, 1970	Early Wynn Baseball
• Radio	March 6, 1972	Month of March, Baseball, First Job
• Radio	July 27, 1972	Gehrig Aims For The Old Man
• Radio	August 25, 1972	New York Mets
• Radio	July 7, 1975	Extra Long Ball Game - Rock Collector
• Radio	December 9,1964	Strange Moments In Sports
• Radio	April 30, 1962	A Day At The Mets
• Radio	May 30, 1962	Frustration Room
• Radio	June 4, 1962	Mets - Public Losers
• Radio	July 10, 1962	Casey At The Bat
• Radio	July 16, 1962	Stop Pretending
• Radio	August 6, 1962	Accepted Truths, Baseball
• Radio	September 10, 1962	Pitchmen
• Radio	October 1, 1962	Ole Miss Integration
• Radio	October 3, 1962	Army Pass in NY
• Radio	October 9, 1962	Function Fans
• Radio	October 18, 1962	Football Fun
• Radio	April 9, 1963	Imponderables, Baseball Fans
• Radio	May 29, 1963	Expert Panelists
• Radio	October 9, 1963	Pop Art
• Radio	January 13, 1964	Enclosed Ballparks, Satire, Rationalization in Politics
• Radio	April 20, 1965	Amateur Sports, Baseball
• Radio	January 20, 1966	Salute to Millard Filmore, Army, Shep the Dentist

Photos:

1987
Chicago White Sox - Visual History

June 26,1965
Three Ring baseball league "Team" photo

Courtesy: Steve Glazer

1969
Bumpers - Seg II Fenway

1985
Jean Shepherd's America - Chicago

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975