The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream

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Beauty at Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild Times in Baseball's First Century

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Deferred Glory: Heroes of the Negro Baseball Leagues

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This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s

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Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard

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Few and Chosen Dodgers: Defining Dodgers Greatness Across the Eras

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The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine

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Baseball's Business: The Winter Meetings: 1901-1957: SABR Digital Library, #43

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Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age

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Few and Chosen Giants: Defining Giants Greatness Across the Eras

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Willie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend

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Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial

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Big 50: San Francisco Giants: The Men and Moments that Made the San Francisco Giants

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Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero

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It Happens Every Spring: DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark

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Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game

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Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever

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Thar's Joy in Braveland: The 1957 Milwaukee Braves: SABR Digital Library, #19

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How the Weather Was

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I Live for This!: Baseball's Last True Believer

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The 1993 Canadiens: Seven Magical Weeks, Unlikely Heroes And Canada’s Last Stanley Cup Champions

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The Beef

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A History of College Football in South Carolina: Glory on the Gridiron

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100 Things Auburn Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

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When the Yankees Were on the Fritz: Revisiting the "Horace Clark Era"

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The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball

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The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series Champions: SABR Digital Library, #18

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Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series

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'67: The Maple Leafs: The Maple Leafs, Their Sensational Victory, and the End of an Empire

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Champions: The Story of the First Two Oakland A's Dynasties—and the Building of the Third

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Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms: A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out the Babe to Teeing It up with the President

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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

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Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey

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The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance

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Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success

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Breathing for Warriors: Master Your Breath to Unlock More Strength, Greater Endurance, Sharper Precision, Faster Recovery, and an Unshakable Inner Game

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Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master

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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

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MOX

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Ball Four

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Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

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Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes

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The Imaginary Girlfriend

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Slash

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Tiger Woods

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The Baseball 100

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Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion

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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

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A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team

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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

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LeBron

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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

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Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance

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The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse

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How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer

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Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition

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The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls

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Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British football’s greatest manager SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

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428 Edward Gibbon (with Zachary Karabell)

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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 2 | “Rustlers and Robbers”: Bob Parker begins a rustling operation that contributes to the Johnson County War in Wyoming. He adopts the name Butch Cassidy and goes to trial for the alleged theft of a horse. Meanwhile, Sundance lives the life of a drifting cowboy until he robs his first train.

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Bill Walton on David Halberstam’s “The Breaks of the Game”

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"You Could Be Walking Around Lucky and Not Know It" with Eric Delgado

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129 Great Sports Novels – Where Are They? (with Mike Palindrome and Reagan Sova): Every year, the Super Bowl draws over 100 million viewers in the U.S. alone, and the Olympics and World Cup will be watched by billions around the world. Movies and television shows about sports are too numerous to count. But where are the novels?

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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 3 | “The Wild Bunch”: Butch Cassidy becomes the leader of a gang known as the Wild Bunch, and Sundance becomes a key member of the outfit

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George Custer massacres peaceful Cheyenne near the Washita River - November 27th, 1868: On this day in 1868, at dawn, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led a surprise attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village along the Washita River in what is now Oklahoma.

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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 4 | “Bolivia”: Butch and Sundance travel to South America to outrun the Pinkertons and they take Sundance’s girlfriend, Etta Place, with them.

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Andy Aledort: Growing up in New York in the late 60’s & early 70’s, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Arthur Brown, Steve Morse, Jeff Beck, Jackson Browne, Johnny WInter… getting the gig with Dickey Betts and stories from 12 years on the road with him -...

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Episode 154: D&C 54 - Section 75: CORRECTION: Cleveland was never the capital of Ohio. At this point in history it was Columbus. Have fun in sales! Everyone is a vineyard. It's a throwback to last June when everyone was being sent out to be like a trump unto the wilderness. Bryce...

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Spike Boarts Stories Part 1

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JFK Assassination: A Witness Remembers

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Ep 1.7: Finding Bobby Fischer: Lost Interviews with the World Chess Champion

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JFK Jr. The Prince of Camelot | 8

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Travis Mewhirter releases new beach volleyball book: We Were Kings: Travis Mewhirter published his book, We Were Kings, on December 5. You can order it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble! I’ll always remember the first interview. It was September of 2016. I was sitting on my bed in my studio in Newport Beach. That bed al...

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Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson: This episode Rock N Roll Librarian Shelley Sorenson and Rock N Roll Archaeologist Christian Swain go down the big muddy river and deep into the delta to discuss Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow’s new book ‘Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson’.  This time, while on our Mississippi adventure, we will play many of the few Robert Johnson recordings and couple that with samples from famous acolytes throughout the rock n roll era to show just how influential this guy was to the latter music. Robert Johnson’s recordings, made in 1936 and 1937, have profoundly influenced generations of singers, guitarists, and songwriters. Yet until now, his short life—he was murdered at the age of 27—has been poorly documented. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Johnson since the early 1960s, and he was the person who discovered Johnson’s death certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson’s life

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The Story of Willard "Home Run" Brown | Featuring the Late Willard Brown: He was Ese Hombre. He was Sunny. He was Home Run Brown. He was Special Services for the US Army at the invasion of Normandy. And he was the Negro Leagues' greatest power hitter of the 1940's. Meet Willard Brown, through the stories of Bob Kendrick and the archived voice of Brown himself. Hear how the late Hall of Famer planned to be a Kansas City Monarch from an early age, and ended up rewriting their record books. Hear about his legendary tape-measure shots, and game-winning heroics, his larger-than-life persona in his career in Latin America, and the joy he brought to European troops hitting home runs for the Army in World War II. And don't miss the story of Willard Brown's historic, yet ill-fated, stint as the first Black player (alongside Hank Thompson) in St. Louis Browns history, and why it paled in comparison the competitive levels of the Negro Leagues.

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Michael Simmons: Musician and writer Michael Simmons has written dozens of Dylan cover pieces for MOJO magazine, as well as incisive liner notes for Another Self Portrait and Bob Dylan 1970. “I remember where I was when Kennedy was assassinated and I remember the exact moment I heard Like A Rolling Stone. It sounded like freedom.” He praises Bob as both “a revolutionary” and “an evolutionary” artist and reminds us that “the difference between a great talent and a hack is the willingness to fall on their face in the pursuit of something new.” From Michael’s LA home he recounts his time playing guitar, singing backup and doing improvised comedy with the outrageous country jokesters Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys (despite being born in New York City). Mr Simmons contains other multitudes: T-Bone Burnett, Greil Marcus, George Hamilton IV, Gordon Lightfoot, Jerry Garcia and Neil Young all receive considered mentions. He brings it all back home by confirming that “at all times, somebod

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Through the Banks of the Red Cedar (Gene Washington Story Told Through the Eyes of His Daughter - Maya Washington): Through the Banks of the Red Cedar is a documentary and book from Maya Washington as she goes on a journey to share the story of her father, former MSU Spartan and Minnesota Viking, Gene Washington.

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Iron Mike Malloy: The Man Who Would Not Die: Depression-era New York was a tough time for a guy just looking to get by. The pressure of feeding a family, the lack of available work, the poor conditions suffered from much of the work that was available and at the end of the day, you couldn’t even r...

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Reporting on George Floyd’s Murder and aftermath in Minneapolis (ep. 270): Recently, a dear friend shared the work of journalist Mike Max and his coverage of George Floyd's murder and the protests, destruction and marches in Minneapolis in the following days. Mike had covered the sports beat for 34 years at the CBS...

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Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024): An interview with Jerry Grillo

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Oasis At War: Part 2

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E122: David Dalton on The Beach Boys + The Beatles + Charles Manson: In this episode we welcome the legendary — and highly amusing — David Dalton to join us all the way from his rural retreat in upstate New York. We start by comparing our shocked reactions to Vladimir Putin's horrific invasion of Ukraine before asking David how he moved to America from England in 1961. He tells us about his mid-'60s adventures as a photographer of British Invasion acts like the Animals — with assistance from a pre-Beatle Linda McCartney — and then about his mid-stream switch to profiles of James Brown and Janis Joplin for Jann Wenner's nascent Rolling Stone. We revisit the award-winning 1970 Stone piece David co-wrote about Charles Manson and the Family, hearing along the way about Manson's connections with the Beach Boys. This leads almost seamlessly into clips from the late Andy Gill's 1988 audio interview with Dr. Eugene Landy, the shrink who "saved" Brian Wilson only to abuse his professional trust

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393. JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (Part 2)

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A Super Hero's Journey? | Guests: Brad Meltzer & Will Maule | 11/13/18

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E119: Michael Simmons on country punk + '60s counterculture + Van Dyke Parks: In this episode, Barney, Mark & Jasper invite counterculture chronicler and "father of country punk" Michael Simmons to join them in RBP's virtual cupboard… all the way from his Culver City lair in small-hours Southern California. Michael talks very entertainingly about his dad Matty's '60s "hippie mag" Cheetah and about National Lampoon, the satirical '70s institution that succeeded it. Yarns about John Belushi and chums lead into Simmons Jr.'s unlikely but lifelong love of country music; his New York band Slewfoot; depping for George Jones at the Bottom Line; and his late '70s stint as one of Kinky Friedman's self-styled "Texas Jewboys". We also hear about our guest's parallel writing career and his move to Los Angeles, from whence he has long contributed to such outlets as the L.A. Weekly and (from the mid-noughties on) MOJO. He reminisces about his teenage Greenwich Village obsession with Bob Dylan, and t

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BONUS: I Read The NewsToday Oh Boy: The Kennedy Assassination: The third in the occasional series of ten-minute looks at topics in the news during the time were looking at covers the Kennedy assassination. Click through for the transcript: Welcome to the third episode of I Read The News Today, Oh Boy. As I explai

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Episode 21: Bill Walton: “I just love reading about adventure and about history, biography, about why people succeed in life. And one of the overriding themes on the path to success is that as we're all chasing this dream, that when we come to the hurdles, when it seems l...

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Infinite Inning 228: A Great Boy for Baseball: A solo episode in which sad past and sorry present collide in the spring of 1927, when even as Babe Ruth and the Yankees were setting records there was evil abroad in Michigan. Then we journey to 1947 and the moment Ben Chapman tried to derail Jackie...