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The Short Flight Of El Pájaro, The Cuban Legend Who Played His Only Game In The Major Leagues 100 Years Ago Today

No one knows anymore what the A in Alfredo A. Cabrera's name stands for. We do know he most likely sailed from the Canary Islands to Cuba around 1900, as a teenager, and almost immediately…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4686 words)

The Shining: The Inside Story Behind The National Anthem Of College Basketball

Via: s3.amazonaws.comAfter winning the 2000 National Championship, Michigan State's Mateen Cleaves cries as "One Shining Moment" plays in the arena. David Barr
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: April 7, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3928 words)

Lying Around With Brandon McCarthy

Image by Jonathan Zizzo /Buzzfeed Brandon McCarthy has some ideas for how a profile of himself should read. He knows the formula cold: a quirky intro that sets the tone and lays out the big idea;…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4392 words)

Men's Style, Travel, Fitness and Gear

The boat is pitching and reeling when the Shark Lady picks up her power drill. A Shaq-size monster is banging the shit out of the side of our vessel. There are eight onboard, but six of us are…
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4117 words)

Inside Major League Baseball's Dominican Sweatshop System

Yewri Guillén, in an undated family photo THE BASEBALL MEN started coming around when Yewri Guillén was 15. Like thousands of other boys in the Dominican Republic, he had been waiting for…
AUTHOR:Ian Gordon
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1394 words)

Disasters Made in Bangladesh

e still don’t know exactly how many of Swapna’s coworkers were killed at the Tazreen Fashions factory on November 24, 2012. She was sewing shorts—“half-pants,”…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5774 words)

When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?

Image by Johan Persson/Kontinent/Redux Two flags dangle from a banister into the middle of a living room in a modest two-story suburban home in Riverside — one of the far-flung exurbs of Southern…
AUTHOR:NatashaVC
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6352 words)

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Boom Or Bust: 48 Hours At Leadville's Treacherous Ultramarathon

After 99.75 miles and more than 16 hours of running, Thomas Lorblanchet comes striding slowly down 6th Street in Leadville, Colo. It's almost 9 on an August night, and as he crests a small hill, his…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4109 words)
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