The Secret Language of Baseball

THE HALL OF FAME’S MUSTACHE COLLECTION After too many hours hunched at a table in the Giamatti Research Center at the Baseball Hall of Fame, I was falling asleep over my notebook. My eyes were dry and bloodshot, my fingers sore from writing. I lacked the focus to finish reading old scrapbooks and journals about long-ago games. But then, as I stretched and paced around the little room, I saw a package of fake mustaches affixed to an office window. […]

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