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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers The co-founder of Designated Writers threw down the haberdashery gauntlet on baseball uniforms yesterday by taking…

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Teddy Allen/DESIGNATED WRITERS The most awful uniforms known to mankind won the College World Series last night. But the best team…

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BEWARE OF THE TUPPERWARE BANDITS TEDDY ALLEN/Designated Writers The column above — about Tupperware Bandits but also about the guy…

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Certain dates in our country’s history are practically inborn. Most Americans know these by heart by second grade, (which for me…

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(This effort originally ran in The Times and The News-Star Sunday June 23, 2019) Earl Silas Tupper of Berlin, New Hampshire…

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A month ago this long-awaited book from Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, author, and historian Rick Atkinson came in to my mailbox. I’ve…

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The NBA Draft is tonight and the New Orleans Pelicans are — for this one, brief moment — the focal point…

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(This column ran originally Sunday June 16 in The Times and The News-Star.) An online baseball group I asked to join…

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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers A dozen Titleists would have been great — and actually, expected — but I ended up…

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