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		<title>Who invented baseball?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard that a young man named Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839. Doubleday then went on to become a Civil War hero, while baseball became America&#8217;s beloved national pastime. Not only is that story untrue, it’s not even in the ballpark. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Shoeless Joe Jackson conspire to throw the 1919 World Series?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the third-highest career batting average in Major League Baseball history (.356), Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe” Jackson would certainly be a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame—if it weren&#8217;t for the Black Sox Scandal. He and seven teammates on the Chicago White Sox were accused of conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series [...]]]></description>
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