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Lindsay John Bell, Ph.D.
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Historian • Professor at De Anza College •
SABR Member • Baseball Aficionado •
Research explores the intersection of sports, militarism, & gender • Opinions my own • He/Him
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Before it became #VeteransDay in the U.S., November 11 was recognized as Armistice Day – the day guns fell quiet on the Western Front in WWI. Among those in baseball who served was Branch Rickey. In 1942, after patriotism swelled in response to Pearl Harbor, he received 3 HoF votes for his service.
Branch Rickey’s officer identity card with a picture of him in his uniform as Adjutant General in the Chemical War Service.
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The hubris it takes to reject “we don’t know” if evidence does not exist to fill in a gap in the historical record and the distortion it will create when you think you can. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
A clip of an article quoting Elon Musk saying, “I am interested in history and Rome constitutes a large part of the history of western civilisation,” Musk said via video link…AI, he said, would fill knowledge gaps by writing “a new history book based entirely on ancient material and archeology.”
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Thinking about better times…
David Freese rounding first base after hitting the game-winning home run in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series.
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Molloy, the car burglar from The Simpsons, scaling a wall.
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I just saw history. Ohtani…unreal.
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I cannot see the OP, but I am going to assume it’s the commercial for the 4Patriots food supply that keeps coming on during the MLB playoff games I watch through YouTubeTV.
A screenshot of a commercial showing packets of food being sold with an offer to get two months free.
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Happy birthday to C. Montgomery Burns.
An image from The Simpsons of a calendar with September 15 circled and “Burns Birthday” written on the date.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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They finally did it!
Almond milk called “Malk.” A screenshot from The Simpsons of Bart holding a carton of what he thinks is milk but is a carton of Malk.
September 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Anyone else’s cat find hours of entertainment with a single piece of uncooked penne pasta?
September 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Published in educational psychologist Haim G. Ginott’s “Teacher and Child,” 1972.
I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot by high school and college graduates. So, I am suspicious of education. My request is this: Help your children become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths or educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.
August 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Only Silicon Valley hubris could envision a world in which a body of knowledge that seeks to understand the human experience over time could be better performed by a machine.

www.businessinsider.com/ai-jobs-over...
A graph showing the professions believed to be most susceptible to AI with historian listed at the top.
July 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Saw this on Instagram, and I too had to squint my eyes to ensure I was not seeing Alf.
A picture of a person at a podium in which people in the audience are in frame and a person who looks like Alf is in the shot.
July 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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*Gasps in Manifest Destiny*
A tweet by the Department of Homeland Security of Jon Gast’s painting “American Progress” with the caption “A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth defending.”
July 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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At the San Jose Giants game watching Tanya Millette in action, @umpireplb.bsky.social
Tanya Millette umpiring the San Jose Giants game. Tanya Millette ringing up a batter at the San Jose Giants game.
June 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Just finished season 2 of Andor.
Kleya from Andor crying.
May 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Advertise your account with a Simpsons image.
Homer unconscious being carried off the field by his teammates from the Simpsons episode “Homer at Bat.”
May 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Rob Manfred imposed on the body of Principal Skinner from The Simpsons wondering if he is the one who is out of touch, but concluding that he is right and everyone else is wrong.
April 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Screenshot of a news article headline starting “US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts.” A screenshot of Bart from The Simpsons holding a carton of “Malk” that reads “Now with vitamin R.”
April 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Happy #JackieRobinsonDay

“I think if you look back at why people think of me as they do it’s because white America doesn’t like a black guy who stands up for what he believes.”
– Jackie Robinson, 1972
Jackie Robinson in his Dodgers uniform holding a bat.
April 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Mr. Burns from The Simpsons disguised as “Snrub” who wants to know if Mr. Burns can have more money.
April 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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In celebration of #OpeningDay, enjoy a timeless pun from cartoonist Herbert “Herblock” Block. Date unknown.
A newspaper cartoon showing a man putting screens in his windows in his house that overlooks a ball diamond where boys are playing baseball with a caption that reads, “Home owner putting screens in early to keep out the flies.”
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This opening scene to The Simpsons season 6 episode, “A Star is Burns” just hits a whole lot harder these days.
March 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Recipes?! Preparing a meal to eat and share is one of the oldest human experiences we have that connects us across generations and grounds us in our humanity. “Hell no” to all of this! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A screenshot of a part of an article about parents trying to teach their kids how to use AI responsibly.
March 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I prefer his initial lineup in which his right fielder, Jim Creighton, had been dead for 130 years.
Mr. Burns from The Simpsons revealing his superstar softball lineup.
February 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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“The Rebels were not made rebels in a day, and they cannot be made patriots in a day. In my opinion, they must be born again. The only difference is this: during the war the Rebel had a musket, now he has none. The difference is in the musket, not the Rebel.”
– Ebon C. Ingersoll, US Rep. (IL), 1865
Civil-War era U.S. Representative from Illinois, Ebon C. Ingersoll.
February 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM