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Thomas Paine Podcast

1965 Lawrence S Ritter - The Glory of Their Times Interviews

Thomas Paine Podcast

mike moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Politics, News, Daily News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 293 minutes

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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.3

I knew it. They'd been with their landscaper to Jusen. A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that? For materials, too high, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Deucon's got the lot. Like Terales, porcelain,

0:01.7

from only £22 per square metre.

0:03.6

Love it!

0:04.4

All trade prices exclude VAT Don't waste time. Juson's got the lot. Like Terales, porcelain, paving from only 22 pounds per square metre.

0:22.3

Love it.

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.0

And the Evanses.

0:29.2

And the Patels.

0:33.9

All these were honoured in their generation and were the glory of their times.

0:46.3

This is the glory of their times, the story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it.

0:59.4

This is Larry Ritter.

1:02.9

I sometimes wonder what could have prompted me to embark on such a strange crusade,

1:09.1

searching the highways and byways of America for old ballplayers,

1:13.3

a quest that preoccupied me for the better part of six years. For a long time, I thought my

1:19.6

travels had been inspired by the death of Tai Cobb in 1961, and that I was pursuing a social goal,

1:27.2

recording for posterity the remembrances of a sport that

1:31.0

had played such a significant role in American life in the early years of the 20th century.

1:37.3

But now on reflection, almost four decades later, I don't think my journey had much to do

1:43.2

with social purposes at all. Deep down,

1:46.6

it was a quest of a more personal nature. It so happens that my own father died at about the same

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