What to Learn From a Yearbook

April 7, 2025
By: Dave Zirin

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NCAA Final Four, Villanova team victorious over Georgetown, in Lexington, Kentucky, on April 1, 1985.  (Richard Mackson / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

On this episode of Edge of Sports, Author Michael Messner and friend of the pod Arya Shirazi join the show.

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This week on Edge of Sports, we talk to Michael Messner, author of a fascinating new book about what we can learn by looking at sports and yearbooks over the course of a century. It’s called The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024. Also, I’m talking to the savant Arya Shirazi about the days when March was truly mad.

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