Baseball Special with Tabitha Soren & Sean Doolittle

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Guess what! With opening day this week, Bullseye is bringing you its first ever Baseball special! Jesse talks with Oakland A's relief pitcher Sean Doolittle about recovering from injuries, getting called up to the majors and the weird path it took him on: starting out as a first baseman, then pivoting to closing out games on the mound. Plus, Tabitha Soren of MTV fame has a new career: photography. She just published a new book that follows the a draft class of ball players over the course of 15 years. Plus: Red Sox organist Josh Kantor on the song that changed his life.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Rachel Martin with NPR News, and you know what?
0:02.6	We're doing something new.
0:03.8	And we want you to be part of it.
0:04.9	It's called Up First.
0:06.0	It's the Morning News podcast from NPR.
0:08.2	It's a way for you in about 10 minutes or so
0:10.8	to get up to speed on the news of any given day.
0:13.2	The most important stories, the biggest ideas,
0:16.0	the stuff you need to know as you go through your day.
0:18.6	Up first, it starts April 5th.
0:20.4	You can get it at NPR 1 or anywhere you listen to your podcasts.
0:25.3	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org
0:29.5	and is distributed by NPR.
0:39.3	It's Bullseye.
0:40.4	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:41.8	Hey, real quick, here's a question for you.
0:44.3	How do baseball players, major league baseball players
0:47.4	get to their major league baseball games?
0:50.0	Like, they take a limo, drive in a fancy sports car,
0:54.9	maybe a chopper?
0:57.1	It's if you're rich and famous, like,
0:59.3	Echero Suzuki or something, you can get there however you want.
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