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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Tom and Greg are joined by Kevin Baker, author of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, to discuss the early history of the sport and its unique connections to New York City.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Listen to the latest episodes of For the Ages, the New York Historical Society's

0:05.2

Fascinating Podcast hosted by David M Rubinstein.

0:08.8

Historian Lindsay Trevinsky, author of Morning the Presidents, joins David to discuss the deaths of Presidents

0:16.2

across U.S. history and how such losses and subsequent expressions of grief have affected American culture and politics.

0:25.0

Then David is joined by Orville Vernon Burton, the author of The Age of Lincoln,

0:31.0

to inspect the arc of Abraham Lincoln's political career in the context of the

0:36.4

ideologically tumultuous 19th century, painting a portrait of the five decades pivoting around

0:42.4

his presidency and his place within them.

0:45.0

And Amity Shlays explores the personal and political characteristics that define

0:50.7

President Calvin Coolidge's career and legacy.

0:54.4

From the Boston Police Strike to the rapid social and economic changes of the roaring 20s,

0:59.6

Coolidge's political career spanned and was marked by continuous

1:03.6

upheavals in American life. That's For the Ages, available on Apple and

1:09.1

Spotify. The Bowery Boys episode 428, the New York game. Baseball in the early days.

1:18.0

Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.

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Hey! Hi there welcome to the Barry Boys this is Greg Young and this is Tom Myers and

1:40.1

Greg we're not in the studio, are we?

1:43.0

No, no, no, we are sitting here on the island in Manhattan in Bowling Green Park,

1:50.0

at the foot of Manhattan, in fact.

1:52.0

Tom, would you like to describe what we're seeing right now?

1:54.8

Yes, like you said, we're in Bowling Green Park, sitting on a park bench and we are facing

2:00.1

the Alexander Hamilton Customs House in all of its Boseart Beauty.

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