Effectively Wild Episode 1097: How the Big Mac Was Made

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about “Babe Ruth’s Legs,” then talk to researcher and statistician David Neft about how he rebuilt baseball’s historical record to create the Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia, or “Big Mac,” which provided the most comprehensive and accurate account of the sport’s statistical past when it was published in 1969, and which […]

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0:00.0	I did me a lift and family lives
0:05.5	The power and sacrifice the teacher of
0:08.7	That's a take down
0:10.5	I did me a lift and family lives
0:15.3	Until I'm in a long receiving line
0:18.5	You're a whole lot
0:20.2	Hello and welcome to episode
0:25.3	1907 of Effectively Wild A Baseball Podcast
0:29.0	from Famegrass presented by our Patreons supporters
0:31.8	I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer
0:33.8	joined by Jeff Sullivan of Famegrass
0:35.8	Hello, hello
0:36.8	This is going to be a history episode of the podcast
0:39.8	and just a couple minutes we are going to talk to
0:42.8	David Neft who essentially made everything that we do possible
0:47.4	He came up with the Macmillan baseball encyclopedia
0:51.2	The really first comprehensive, accurate encyclopedia published in 1969
0:56.1	It took an enormous amount of effort and research
0:58.7	So we're going to get the origin story of that encyclopedia
1:02.3	That really made possible
1:04.1	Everything that has happened since
1:05.9	And you have something brief that you want to say before we get to David
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