Ep. 273: Incredible inside stories about Michael Jordan’s baseball career

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On the 25th anniversary of Michael Jordan's quest to play baseball for the White Sox, Chuck Garfien takes a look back at this incredible journey with stories from those were there. Bill Melton talks about secretly teaching Jordan how to hit before the news broke that he was going to play baseball (4:18), Ozzie Guillen tells the story about playing a game of 2-on-1 basketball with Joey Cora against Jordan at a local gym (8:32), Frank Thomas discusses the MJ mayhem at spring training and if Jordan could have made it to the majors (12:18), Darren Jackson talks about playing outfield with Jordan and their exhibition game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field (13:10), Birmingham Barons broadcaster Curt Bloom on what it was like calling Jordan's games, the bus Jordan bought for the team, the day Jordan actually drove the bus, hitting a home run for his dad and more (24:00).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Keep your money local.
0:01.4	Bring it home to a WinTrust Community Bank,
0:03.6	home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide.
0:06.5	Find out more at wintrust.com slash Sox.
0:09.3	Members FDIC.
0:10.5	White Sox, White Sox, go, go, White Sox.
0:14.3	A ball hit deep way back.
0:16.4	Deep to the Red.
0:18.2	Holy cow.
0:20.0	Chargton fans has put the White Sox ahead.
0:23.2	Jimenez leaves the ballpark.
0:26.1	You can't put it on board.
0:28.9	Yes.
0:30.0	We got a chance to do something real special.
0:32.1	All right, sit back, relax, and strap it down.
0:34.6	It's time for the White Sox Talk podcast.
0:58.0	Yeah. and strap it down. It's time for the White Sox Talk podcast. There's another hit. A drive down to third baseline.
1:00.0	The tying run-made score.
1:02.0	He's around third.
1:04.0	Racing hard to play.
1:06.0	The throw.
1:07.0	He hasn't touched the plate yet and he does.
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