The Upshot

Wife swapping and pitchers on LSD: baseball’s seedy century

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These days, baseball is ruled by a solemn army of laptop-wielding spreadsheet gurus.

But in its glorious heyday, America’s national past-time was a seedy hotbed of wife swapping, crack smoking and knife wielding drunkards.

From hijacking planes to wrestling alligators, this is the story of Baseball’s seedy century…

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