I'm continuing to fill in some of my cultural blind spots with more sports history since it's neither something I grew up around nor a natural personal interest of mine.
I've been trying to gain more of a journeyman level of appreciation for sports and sports culture without being bogged down by a lack of basic knowledge like the rules of a game in theory everyone knows already, or a lack of investment that makes things that are too technical a slog to get excited about or understand why they're cool or important.
If you're in the same boat I highly recommend this YouTuber who I can describe as 'the BobbyBroccoli for sports history instead of Science History' and is highly underappreciated.
A few suggestions:
The greatest rivalry in sports
Asterisks in Sports
SPORTOPOLY: a board game about owners
The Death Penalty in Sports
The longest baseball game ever
Curses in sports













