July 15, 1988: Morgan's Magic Gets a Royal Beginning
The latest from Baseball and Us, exploring a specific date in baseball history and what it reveals about the game and the era around it.
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Discovering the Stories History Left Behind.
Independent research, storytelling, and publishing exploring the people, places, and moments that shaped our world.
About Chavis Media
An Independent Media Company
Chavis Media is an independent media company dedicated to original storytelling, historical research, and distinctive editorial perspectives. Through its publications, books, podcasts, and multimedia projects, Chavis Media explores overlooked histories, compelling stories, and the people and places that have shaped our world.
Publications
Our Editorial Properties
A research-driven publication exploring overlooked, unusual, and forgotten stories throughout sports history. Its articles emphasize original research, historical context, contemporary sources, and the people and places behind significant or neglected events.
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A baseball history publication that explores individual days in baseball history, bringing together games, personalities, historical events, and the broader context surrounding them. Baseball and Us makes baseball history engaging and accessible through focused, narrative-driven storytelling.
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Recent Work
September 11, 1918: The Last Hurrah Before the Drought
A look at one of the most consequential dates in Red Sox history, and the long silence that followed.
Read on SubstackApril 1, 1963: The Day the Cubs and Red Sox Came to San Bernardino
Spring training took an unexpected turn when two storied franchises landed in the Inland Empire. A forgotten afternoon with a story worth telling.
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Chavis Media grew out of a simple conviction: that the most interesting stories are often the ones that did not make the front page. The overlooked ballpark. The forgotten player. The season that changed everything but was never quite recognized as such.
Through Huntington Avenue Grounds, Baseball and Us, books, and broader research, Chavis Media brings together original journalism, historical scholarship, and multimedia storytelling under a single editorial identity.
Christopher D. Chavis
Founder, Chavis Media
Books & Research
New England Pivot
The Red Sox and the Region in 1972 — McFarland, 2026
This work tells the story of 1972 as a hinge year in northern New England, a moment when long-standing political, cultural, and institutional assumptions quietly began to fracture. Set against the backdrop of insurgent political campaigns in New Hampshire and Vermont is the 1972 Boston Red Sox season, shaped by baseball's first league-wide work stoppage. Blending sports and political history, the book reveals how a single year planted transformations that still define New England today.
Podcasts
Coming in 2027
Coming 2027Audio productions from Baseball and Us and Huntington Avenue Grounds are in development. Episodes will explore specific dates in baseball history, forgotten players, historic venues, and in special collaborative episodes, broader subjects that connect sport to the wider American story.
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