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Ben Yagoda

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Guggenheim and MacDowell Fellow. Author, “Will Rogers,” “About Town,” “The Sound on the Page,” “Memoir,” “How to Not Write Bad,” “The B Side.”
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‘The First All-Star Game’: Inventing a Midsummer Classic

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By Ben Yagoda
| The Wall Street Journal
A Chicago newspaper editor’s brainwave brought together baseball’s titans in 1933 for an exhibition game. A tradition was born. Chuck Klein bats for the National League in the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 6, 1933. Bettmann Archive I know for a fact that I am far from alone among baby boomers in having spent a great deal of my childhood and teenage years absorbing baseball lore.
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Words in the Dark

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By Ben Yagoda
| The Wall Street Journal
I know that scallops have 200 eyes, that it has become virtually impossible to amend the U.S. Constitution and that if you try to stir some soup with a spoon made of the element gallium, the spoon will disappear into the bowl—all thanks to my troubles with sleep. Many of us have such issues nowadays, and helping to keep mine under control is a regimen I have followed for more than 40 years.
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The Grammar Trick Every Ad Is Using

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By Ben Yagoda
| Quick and Dirty Tips
For me, peak advertising anthimeria arrived during this year’s U.S. Open tennis tournament.
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