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I'm your host for the week, Dresha Brown, and this is episode number 386.5.

Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are solidly into the fall, and if you are listening

to this, or as you're listening to this, I guess, the World Series might be over.

The World Series is a baseball, that is, for those more familiar.

It also might not be over depending on how things went between my recording this on November

1st and whenever you're listening to it.

If you're not a baseball fan, you might not even know what was happening.

You certainly probably don't know who won, and I will confess that I myself am solidly

into the bandwagon fan category, especially when it comes to baseball.

The local team here, the Seattle Mariners, made it past, or made it, I guess, into the

postseason for the first time in a couple of decades.

I did watch some of those games, and then they got unceremoniously knocked out, so I stopped

watching until, I don't know, let's be honest, probably next time they make the playoffs,

next year, next decade, who knows.

But even if you're not a fan of baseball, it is tough to ignore the impact the sport has

had on the history, culture, and society of the US, or at least how much it's interwoven

into those things.

And if you don't know what I mean, stick around, because we're going to talk a little bit

about baseball today, and how it impacts even those who have never seen a game.

Today's episode is brought to you by Wednesday Books.

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