Effectively Wild Episode 1540: Don’t Leave it All on the Field

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about an anecdote in David Halberstam’s book The Teammates about prescient Cardinals pitcher Harry Brecheen, the uproar when players were first prevented from leaving their gloves on the field, and the 20th anniversary of Glenallen Hill’s rooftop home run, then revisit Michael Jordan’s motivations for playing baseball and discuss […]

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0:00.2	I dare away from the hustle and grinds
0:05.5	and all that £0.30
0:10.1	down the street
0:15.6	Our moves, the only place I know
0:22.5	Where you just have to wish to make it so
0:32.5	Oh, let's go up on the roof
0:37.5	Good morning and welcome to episode 1540 of Effectively Wild
0:41.5	baseball podcast on Fandrass.com, brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:45.5	I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh, the ringer
0:49.5	Hi Ben, do you have anything you want to talk about to start?
0:53.5	Yeah, a couple things.
0:54.5	Alright, hit me.
0:55.5	First, I just finished the David Halberstam book, The Teammates, Have you ever read that?
1:00.5	Oh, yeah.
1:02.5	A long time ago, yeah, at some point I did, yeah.
1:05.5	Yeah, well I really liked it. It's just a short little book.
1:08.5	It's about 200 pages, but it's about the friendship
1:12.5	really between the four long-time Red Sox teammates, Bobby Doer and Ted Williams and Dom Domagio
1:18.5	and Johnny Pesky.
1:20.5	And it's sort of a bittersweet kind of book because it's about a trip that Domagio and Pesky took to see Ted Williams
1:27.5	right before Ted Williams died and just about the 60 to 70 year relationship between these guys
1:33.5	and how it went beyond baseball and everything.
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