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Plots / Story Lines - General Topics The Roots of Shep's Tales

Baseball

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

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	Movies		Chicago White Sox - A Visual History
•	Television		Fenway Park
•	Television		Rear Bumper
•	General Topics		Chicago White Sox
•	General Topics		Three Ring Baseball League

Where Shep Makes Reference To This Subject:

Time	Date	Category	Title
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•	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
• 39;00	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
• 07:23	September 10, 1965	Radio	Bit Players of Life
•	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
• 22:31	August 25, 1972	Radio	New York Mets - Signs at Shea
•	July 7, 1975	Radio	Extra Long Ball Game - Rock Collector
•	December 9,1964	Radio	Strange Moments In Sports
• 02:05	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
• 4:45	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
• 10:46	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

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975