Effectively Wild Episode 1162: Coping and Collecting
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh talks to SB Nation’s Grant Brisbee about the Mets’ Jay Bruce signing and finding ways to engage with baseball and keep the content coming during an excruciatingly slow offseason, then brings on Forbes contributor David Seideman to talk about trends in baseball memorabilia collecting, the enduring appeal of historic relics and signatures, and the most unlikely finds and valuable discoveries in recent years.
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Audio outro: Unlikely Friends, "Crooked Numbers"
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Link to David’s Moonlight Graham story
Link to David’s Forbes archive
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| 0:00.0 | It takes me to a distant place sometimes. |
| 0:04.8 | It's not the first time I've ever had. |
| 0:09.5 | It's not the first time I've ever had. |
| 0:11.3 | It's been the first time I've ever had. |
| 0:14.5 | It's not the first time I've ever had. |
| 0:18.5 | I've had my way. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 1162 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:25.0 | a baseball podcast from Fangrass, presented by our |
| 0:28.2 | Adrianse Porter's. |
| 0:29.3 | My name is Benlund Berg. |
| 0:30.7 | I work for the ringer. |
| 0:31.7 | I am not joined today by Jeff Sullivan who is on vacation. |
| 0:35.4 | He will actually be back next week. |
| 0:37.6 | Later in this episode, I will be talking to David |
| 0:39.9 | Scydemen about baseball memorabilia and collecting |
| 0:43.4 | and autographs and signatures, which is one way that I am |
| 0:46.9 | coping with this awful, awful, off season with zero baseball |
| 0:50.8 | news. |
| 0:51.3 | The other way I am coping is by having my first guest on |
| 0:54.8 | Grant Brisbee of Esponation. |
| 0:56.6 | Hello, Grant. |
| 0:57.3 | Welcome back. |
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