Effectively Wild Episode 1551: The 1998 Home Run Race Revisited

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller interview AJ Shnack, the director of ESPN’s new 30 for 30 documentary about the 1998 home run race, Long Gone Summer, touching on the involvement of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, how AJ structured the story, which slugger was the star of the race, the myth that the home run […]

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0:00.0	Went to a ball game the other day
0:04.0	Skinny guys in baggy pants to rake
0:08.0	Pictures do it was one to one
0:11.0	Seeing a bunting a steel and a hitting run
0:15.0	I miss the steroid era
0:19.0	I miss the good old days
0:23.0	Sammy so's the hidden 60 a year
0:27.0	Old guys hitting bombs at the end of their career
0:31.0	I miss the steroid era
0:34.0	I miss the good old days
0:38.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1551
0:41.0	of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast
0:43.0	from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters
0:46.0	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer
0:48.0	and I will be joined in just a moment
0:50.0	by Sam Miller of ESPN
0:52.0	as well as AJ Schnack, the director of ESPN's
0:55.0	30 for 30 documentary Long On Summer
0:57.0	which we will be spending this entire episode discussing
1:00.0	So on Sunday night ESPN aired Long On Summer
1:02.0	it's the story of the 1998 home run race
1:05.0	both what it was like in the moment
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