Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog

The earliest known references to the game of strip poker, albeit under a different name, are reports of Freshmen at Yale University walking ...

  Baseball has long been considered, for the most part, a “man’s” sport.   Or at least a “manly” sport – remember, “there’s no crying in b...

  In 1903, Ban Johnson’s American League brought a team to New York City to compete directly with the National League’s New York Giants fo...