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Learning History Through Baseball Scoring and Family Stories
11:41 - 17:43 (06:01)
Bestselling author and historian Barbara Tuchman recounts how her father taught her how to keep score during baseball games at a young age and how her love for history grew from that. Additionally, Tuchman shares how she would listen to her mother tell stories about her past in an attempt to keep her mind occupied and possibly halt the effects of her damaged heart.
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Historian Barbara Tuckman credits her love for history to her childhood memories of keeping score while listening to Brooklyn Dodgers games with her father.
11:41 - 15:27 (03:45)
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Historian Barbara Tuckman credits her love for history to her childhood memories of keeping score while listening to Brooklyn Dodgers games with her father.
ChapterLearning History Through Baseball Scoring and Family Stories
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The speaker's love for stories from the past can be attributed to her father's love for baseball and her mother's illness, which made her desire to keep her mind engaged in stories from her past.
15:27 - 17:43 (02:15)
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The speaker's love for stories from the past can be attributed to her father's love for baseball and her mother's illness, which made her desire to keep her mind engaged in stories from her past. The impactful history teacher in high school also contributed to the development of her interest in history.