Episode 248: "Yogi"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

From the streets of St. Louis to the beaches of Normandy to a spot behind home plate at Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra became a baseball immortal and an American icon. Author Jon Pessah joins us to discuss his new, definitive biography of the legendary Bronx Bomber catcher.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell the me, I believe
0:05.0	The Giants
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Pellant!
0:09.0	The Giants!
0:10.0	The Giants!
0:12.0	The Pellet!
0:13.0	The giant!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:17.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:22.0	I'm ready to play today.
0:40.7	Hi, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is a special Friday edition of Baseball
0:45.6	by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:49.2	That's right, folks.
0:50.1	For the third week in a row, I'm giving you a second episode of Baseball by the book.
0:55.3	There's a couple of reasons for this.
0:57.3	The first is that there's just simply a lot of baseball books coming out this time of year,
1:01.6	and I'm trying to keep up with the demand.
1:03.9	Secondly, I know that a lot of us are stuck at home these days because of the coronavirus crisis,
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