4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, this is synergy, and this is branding. |
0:03.0 | It's all the things that you see today. |
0:06.0 | And I would argue, it's only a little bit of an exaggeration, |
0:11.0 | that you can draw a direct line from Babe Ruth to Kim Kardashian's Tush. |
0:18.0 | On tomorrow, I depart to that line. Tush. |
0:27.6 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. |
0:28.5 | I'm Dave Ziren. |
0:33.5 | This week we are talking to one of the great sports authors of our time, Jane Levin. |
0:39.5 | She wrote the definitive and endlessly creative biographies of Sandy Kofax and Mickey Mantle, |
0:44.1 | and now she has published The Big Fella, Babe Ruth, and The World He Created. |
0:47.0 | We will speak to her about the babe. |
0:52.6 | Also, I've got some choice words about the University of Maryland in a football culture that can only be described as toxic. |
0:55.4 | I've got just stand up and just sit your ass down awards |
0:58.6 | and Kaepernick watch. |
1:00.4 | But first, let's go to the legend herself, Jane Levy. |
1:09.1 | My first question for you is, so you wrote in my mind and but most people's minds are the definitive |
1:17.2 | biographies of sandy cofax and micky mantel and you could have chosen any subject why babe ruth |
1:24.1 | well after you've done mantel and coofax, where else do you go? |
1:30.6 | I mean, it's not going to be, with all due respect, Walker Bueller, |
1:36.6 | though he may end up being a great pitcher and perhaps someday somebody will write a fabulous biography of him. |
1:44.1 | But I think that in the current milieu, |
1:48.4 | what happens is that people try to write life stories before those lives are lived. And, |
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