Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

Music

We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue
Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom's 3 Ghost Rags.
Then Krzysztof Komeda's Ballet Edude II
A touch of Ellington playing A Single Petal on a Rose.
Then Concerto no. 5 en la minuer: Allegro ma non molto, as performed by Wilhelm Friedeman Bach and Brigitte Haudbebourg frames...
Philharmonics - Piano Sessions found on the Deluxe Edition of Agnes Obel's Philharmonics album.
Then we go to Nathaniel Johnson's gorgeous, Penelope's Theme from the score to the delightful film, The Brothers Bloom.
Sneeuwland by Oskar Schuster.
Judith by Jacob David.

Notes

I read a bunch of articles on Jackie, but if you're looking for one-stop-shopping that can send you off in other research avenues, I'd probably suggest this article by Zack Harold in Lapham's Quarterly.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:01.6	I'm Nate Demayah.
0:03.6	Baseball, for all its rules and complications, all its storied subtleties and its intimidating
0:09.6	some say, intermentable running time, hinges upon two things, perception and expectation.
0:15.7	The batter stands in the box and awaits the next pitch.
0:18.4	That pitch will typically be thrown somewhere between 70 and 100 miles an hour,
0:22.3	will follow one of countless trajectories of radical variants.
0:25.5	It may curve, it may flutter erratically, it may calm as they say
0:29.3	straight down the pike.
0:31.1	Much of the batter's job is anticipating the next pitch.
0:34.9	The pitcher's job is to try to fool the batter by playing with perception and expectation.
0:39.9	Batter's looking for the curve, to give them the heat.
0:42.4	Pitchers learn to adjust their grip on the ball, how they hold it in their glove or
0:46.6	against their hip before they pitch.
0:48.2	They change their arm angle, the timing of their release, all too trick the batter's eye.
0:52.8	To make it harder to spot the ball and adjust to the particularities of its trajectory
0:57.1	on its way to the plate.
0:58.7	In this task, the left-handed pitcher has managed.
1:01.4	The vast majority of batters are right-handed,
1:03.9	and the natural pitching motion of the left-handed pitcher throwing to the right-handed batter
1:08.2	keeps the ball hidden for just a split second longer.
1:11.0	In statistics of shown again and again, that that split second makes a world of difference,
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