Effectively Wild Episode 1535: Leave Me Out, Coach

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and senior writer for The Athletic Andy McCullough banter about the people they would be (or have been) most nervous about interviewing and two new noteworthy articles, then discuss Andy’s and Rustin Dodd’s highly controversial ranking of the 30 greatest baseball songs of all time, the dispute about John Fogerty’s “Centerfield,” […]

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0:00.0	Oh I had to just take a swim I'd get that bang
0:11.5	Anybody could
0:18.4	But I've been in long enough to know
0:24.2	when it's snowing
0:32.2	I've been in long enough to know
0:38.2	when it's snowing
0:44.2	Good morning and welcome to episode 1535 of Effectively Wild
0:49.2	The Baseball Podcast on fangraphs.com
0:52.2	We're brought to you by our Patreon supporters on Sam Miller of DSPN along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer
0:58.2	and with us today is Andy McCullough, national baseball writer at the Athletic
1:03.2	Andy, hello. Hey what's up guys?
1:05.2	Not much. We're going to be chatting with our pal Andy about an article that he and Rust Dodd composed about the best baseball songs ever
1:15.2	an article that I didn't expect to enjoy and I did.
1:21.2	You are clearly not an athletic commenter.
1:24.2	Uh-huh. The comments are a bit I assume we will spend more time on the comments than
1:30.2	maybe on the articles before we get to that though.
1:34.2	Two things, two articles that have been published on the internet that I have things I want to mention about.
1:39.2	One is an article I wrote, it was inspired, it was prompted by, instigated by an email from listener Mark
1:47.2	who discovered this odd factoid on a 1987 Don Mattingly card and wanted me to investigate it.
1:53.2	And so I did. I'm very proud of how that one turned out and I hope you'll check it out.
1:58.2	That's up at ESPN right now. But in the process of investigating this mystery, I got the privilege of talking to a bunch of people
2:06.2	who were in the baseball card industry in the late 80s and early 90s, which is when I was an avid baseball card collector.
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