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Last Update: 08-16-2016

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 / Story Lines and Other References Used

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

Where Shep Made Reference To This Subject:

Time	Date	Category	Title


	June 18, 1960	Radio	Wet Blankets, Protest Marches, Machine People, White Sox Scoreboard
	February 22, 1961	Radio	Civil War Centennial Pitch - Telling the Truth
	April 24, 1963	Radio	Casey at the Bat
	June 20, 1964	Radio	Summer Solstice - Rader in the Florida Swamps, Red Garter Dixieland Band / Summer Job, Toledo Mudhens Play-by-Play
	August 15, 1964	Radio	N.Y. A Summer Festival; The Yankees; Your Father's Mustache Band / Shep in Munich; Uncle Carl's Teeth
	June 4, 1965	Radio	Playing Baseball for United Brethren
	June 26, 1965	Radio	Graduation Day
	July 17, 1965	Radio	Baseball Stories, Great Ice Cream Riot / Moments of Fear, Weekend Pass Fistfight
• 39;00	August 24, 1965	Radio	Left- and Right-Handedness
	August 28, 1965	Radio	Building first radio with the Old Man / The Lure of Defeat, The Mets, Enlisting
	October 30, 1965	Radio	Halloween Show
	1965	Radio	The Magic of Radio
	May 9, 1966	Radio	Fat Pains and Tight Underwear
	June 18, 1966	Radio	Baseball
	June 29, 1966	Radio	Disorganized Baseball
	July 12, 1966	Radio	Bum Poems, Game Called on Account of Frogs
	July 23, 1966	Radio	Forced March Through the Ozarks with Gasser & Goldberg
	August 27, 1966	Radio	Cookie Duster Dustup, Lou Gehrig
	October 16, 1969	Radio	Da Mets - World Champs?!?
	April 15, 1970	Radio	WRUC FM - Ursinus College Radio
	August 26, 1970	Radio	Early Wynn Baseball
	March 6, 1972	Radio	Month of March, Baseball, First Job
	July 27, 1972	Radio	Gehrig Aims For The Old Man
	August 25, 1972	Radio	New York Mets
	July 7, 1975	Radio	Extra Long Ball Game - Rock Collector
	December 9,1964	Radio	Strange Moments In Sports
	April 30, 1962	Radio	A Day At The Mets
	May 30, 1962	Radio	Frustration Room
	June 4, 1962	Radio	Mets - Public Losers
	July 10, 1962	Radio	Casey At The Bat
	July 16, 1962	Radio	Stop Pretending
	August 6, 1962	Radio	Accepted Truths, Baseball
	September 10, 1962	Radio	Pitchmen
	October 1, 1962	Radio	Ole Miss Integration
	October 3, 1962	Radio	Army Pass in NY
	October 9, 1962	Radio	Function Fans
	October 18, 1962	Radio	Football Fun
	April 9, 1963	Radio	Imponderables, Baseball Fans
	May 29, 1963	Radio	Expert Panelists
	October 9, 1963	Radio	Pop Art
	January 13, 1964	Radio	Enclosed Ballparks, Satire, Rationalization in Politics
	April 20, 1965	Radio	Amateur Sports, Baseball
	October 23, 1969	Radio	Da Mets - World Champs?!?
	January 20, 1966	Radio	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