Effectively Wild Episode 1927: The Living Legend of Willie Mays
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley share their impressions of HBO’s new feature-length documentary about Willie Mays, Say Hey, Willie Mays!, and reflect on Mays’s career, then (29:23) talk to director Nelson George about the making of the movie, what didn’t make the movie, his interactions with Mays and other legends, and much more, followed (1:04:59) by a postscript and a Past Blast from 1927.
Audio intro: The Baseball Project, “Sometimes I Dream of Willie Mays”
Audio interstitial: Michael Franti & Spearhead, “Say Hey (I Love You)”
Audio outro: Gallagher and Lyle, “Willie”
Link to Say Hey website
Link to Say Hey trailer
Link to story about banning Mays
Link to story about basket catch
Link to Mays on Bewitched
Link to Mays response to Robinson
Link to Alvin Dark controversy
Link to Bill Greason’s SABR bio
Link to MLBTR on Baker and Click
Link to Michael Mountain’s cLI data
Link to 1927 story source
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
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| 0:00.0 | A mile away in the holograph, he pulls it in, extends himself a ramp. |
| 0:10.0 | Sometimes I scream of Willie Maste. |
| 0:16.0 | And tell him I was there. |
| 0:19.0 | Sometimes I scream of Willie Maste. |
| 0:24.0 | And the wind does fell in the sun, comes up in the storm of the earth, in the fall of this |
| 0:31.0 | and easing. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1927 of Effectively Wild, a pangrass baseball podcast brought to |
| 0:40.0 | fire. |
| 0:41.0 | Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Raleigh, a pangrass, and I am joined as ever by Ben Lemberger of the |
| 0:45.0 | Ringer. |
| 0:46.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:47.0 | Did I say it differently than I normally do? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm joined as ever. |
| 0:49.0 | It's slightly different. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | As ever is different than as always. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, here you are. |
| 0:54.0 | As ever, as always, hey Ben, how are you? |
| 0:57.0 | Hi, that could be our offseason intro, I guess. |
| 1:00.0 | Switching things up. |
| 1:01.0 | We've got a new format here. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah. |
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