Christian Sheppard
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Order a copy of THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF BASEBALL: https://t.co/QccoVLyPYq
Chicago, IL
Joined November 2014
"Christian Sheppard's The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball is a love letter to baseball that explains its connections to our inner lives and to classical lore in a way that makes one pine for Opening Day." -- THEO EPSTEIN
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A best book of 2025 and a great gift: THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF BASEBALL!
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So proud and pleased that my THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF BASEBALL was named among the “Best Baseball Books of 2025” by Sports Collectors Digest! Let’s go!
The Best Baseball Books of 2025 brings baseball history alive. Noted author Dan Schlossberg at @braves1 ranks the top new releases of this year. https://t.co/FgsWtFtH6R
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Amazing anecdote from David Mamet about Tom Stoppard in @TheFP: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood
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Legendary playwright Tom Stoppard was a Holocaust survivor and an immigrant, but he wrote the most English and Anglophile of works, writes David Mamet for The Free Press.
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Oh my goodness gracious
Although in terms of inadequacy it’s not up there with this @SkyNews headline which really takes the inadequate biscuit.
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Free hot dogs at the @TheWienerCircle Tuesday! Don’t forget to tip and get the chocolate shake! What a time.
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Coach Johnson came to Chicago and put on the freshman 15, all muscle 💪 #strawberryshake
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We are profoundly sad to learn of the death of our dear friend Tom Stoppard, one of the most brilliant and feted playwrights of the last sixty years and one of the great intellects of our time. Tom has been at the heart of Faber Drama since his first play, the dazzling
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“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.” Tom Stoppard 1937 – 2025. Today we join with writers and theatre artists across the world to mark the passing of Tom Stoppard, a playwright whose work probed the deepest human mysteries of truth, time,
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"Wake Up Dead Man," the 3rd "Knives Out" mystery, tackles the Christian ethos in a surprisingly satisfying way, analogous to the evocation of Buddhism in "The White Lotus," Season 3. Discuss.
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‘The city of Chicago is hungry too’ -Ben Johnson
Is this real life, or is the just fantasy?! Free hot dogs again Tuesday motherfuckers!
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Turner’s sketchbook, the size of a small wallet, in the tremendous Turner Constable @tatebritain
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Dear Santa, I’ve been very good this year. All I want for Christmas is Kyle Schwarber as DH for my Cubs. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Not sure the Cubs will be involved in the end, but I'll certainly have some Malort if they are!
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A reunion with the Chicago Cubs for Kyle Schwarber? One free agency discussion does include that possibility.
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RUCTION s. (from rupture, Latin.) A tumult; a clamorous contention; a bustle; a hubbub. Dr. Johnson gives the example: “The Irish have a way of producing ructions upon very small occasions.” (attributed to Swift, though the exact quotation is Johnson’s paraphrase). The plural
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The word of the day is “ructions”: “Seemingly from the grave, Epstein is still provoking ructions in President Trump’s MAGA coalition while costing several powerful men their careers and reputations.”—“How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties,” by
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The word of the day is “ructions”: “Seemingly from the grave, Epstein is still provoking ructions in President Trump’s MAGA coalition while costing several powerful men their careers and reputations.” —“How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties,” by
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