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
Where Shep Makes 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
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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
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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
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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
