Gregory Feifer is NPR’s Moscow Correspondent and the author of a new book entitled The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. The book is a history of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, and is told from the perspective of the Soviet soldiers who were on the ground in the country, as well as their Afghan adversaries.

For more on The Great Gamble, click here.

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A woman in Fresno, California recently found a baseball card dating to 1869. The card carries a picture of the Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball team, the first professional baseball club in the United States. Not realizing what she had, the woman nearly sold the card on eBay for ten dollars. Upon discovering how unique … and potentially valuable … this card is, she ended the auction.

Tim Wiles, director of research for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York discussed the history of the ballclub with Jacob McCleland.

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