Effectively Wild Episode 1514: The Fictional Game Goes On

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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In the absence of real baseball (and with plenty of solitary time on fans’ hands), Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley devote an episode to three new fictional depictions of baseball, speaking to novelist Emily Nemens (9:18), the author of spring training tale The Cactus League, novelist Gish Jen (36:56), the author of dystopian baseball saga […]

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0:00.0	Music
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1514 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:34.0	Bandgraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the
0:38.3	Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of Bandgraphs. Hello, Meg. Hello. So we do not have
0:43.8	new baseball to talk about as discussed on our previous episode.
0:47.6	Baseball has been suspended and the regular season start has been delayed
0:51.6	and spring training has been canceled. And therefore we thought we would do a
0:56.0	little something different today. This is obviously something we had planned
0:59.6	already. And we wanted to devote an episode to new baseball fiction, which is
1:05.8	probably pretty well timed because there's no new baseball reality. So we actually
1:11.2	need to distract ourselves if we want some baseball content. We have to use our
1:15.2	imaginations or pick up the new edition of MLB The Show. Yeah, I think this is
1:20.4	going to be one of those times where you curl up with good books and get them
1:25.2	passed to very carefully in packages through the front window if you're
1:30.4	hanging out at home. And so yeah, we had the chance to read two books. We
1:35.5	I think we posted the details of that in the Facebook group, right? So maybe
1:40.0	folks have read along with us as we've prepared for these interviews. But if
1:44.0	they haven't, I think we'd recommend both of these as a welcome
1:47.2	distraction from some pretty gloomy events around the world and definitely
1:52.4	Yes, it's been about a year since we had Linda Holmes on to talk about her book about
1:57.5	baseball. Evie Drake starts over, I guess not quite a year, but we quite enjoyed that. And there
2:02.8	has been a nice little run of fiction books about baseball lately novels about baseball.
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