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Mysteries at the Museum
Baseball Stalker, Peggy Shippen, Moon Hoax
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The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Montclair, New Jersey displays a baseball bat that's linked to a case of fanatical obsession that haunted America's favorite pastime. The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has a set of letters that, when discovered, turned a long-accepted and infamous tale of deceit on its head. And at the Nantucket Historical Association Whaling Museum in Nantucket, Massachusetts, a picture printed on decorative wallpaper reveals an astounding tale of astronomical intrigue and the quest to peer into the darkest recesses of the galaxy.
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