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The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast

Connecting Baseball History w/ John Odell, MLB Hall of Fame

The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast

Blue Wire

Baseball, Sports

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Andrew is joined by John Odell, a MLB Hall of Fame curator, to discuss his job at the baseball Hall of Fame, some of the memorabilia, artifacts, and stories he’s experienced over the years, connections to past and present Yankees, and when Aaron Judge and Tyler Austin made history in 2016.  Check out the Hall of Fame Connections series on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3erC7yr   If you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a rating and review! It is the #1 way you can help out the show.  Get in touch:   @YankeesPodcast   @Andrew_Rotondi   @ScottReinen   @robby_danks     Submit to the mailbag: bronxpinstripes.com/podcast   Call the voicemail line: 646-480-0342   Intro/Outro music: One Way Ticket, by Anitek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We are breaking down all aspects of Yankee baseball.

0:04.0

This is the Bronx Pinstripe Show with your host, Andrew Rotondi and Scott Rhinan.

0:09.1

Let's go.

0:15.1

What's up, everybody, and welcome to the Bronx Pinstripe Show.

0:20.4

We've got a special episode for you today.

0:22.5

I'm joined by John O'Dell, a Hall of Fame curator.

0:26.8

John, welcome to the show.

0:28.2

Thanks for joining me.

0:29.9

Hey, thanks very much.

0:30.8

I'm looking forward to it.

0:32.3

So this seems like you're living out like a childhood fantasy of a job

0:37.2

where you just get to be around cool baseball stuff for a living.

0:41.8

You know, it's even better because I had no idea this job even existed when I was a kid.

0:46.5

I could not have imagined it.

0:48.7

And so I just loved baseball and had no idea that you could actually get paid to do baseball without having

0:55.0

to be a baseball player.

0:56.0

And so at the age of 12 when I was no longer able to play baseball, not because I didn't want

1:02.0

to, but because everybody else was better than me, I was like, okay, well, I'll just watch baseball

1:08.0

from now on.

1:09.0

And I've always enjoyed going to games. And then all of a sudden, boom, I'm just watch baseball from now on. And I've always enjoyed going to games.

1:10.9

And then all of a sudden, boom, I'm in the museum field

1:14.5

and find out there's a position at the Baseball Hall of Fame,

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