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Baseball by the Book

Episode 254: "Stealing Home"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9655 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Three lively Mexican-American communities once stood in the hills that are now home to Dodger Stadium. Author Eric Nusbaum joins us to discuss an incredible story of impassioned immigrants, Red Scare politics and how the dream of baseball in Southern California affected countless lives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The one

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The one side

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I tell the me, I believe

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The Giants

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The Giants

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The Pellant!

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The Giants!

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The Giants!

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The Giants!

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The Pellet!

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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.

0:39.3

Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.

0:46.5

That's right, folks, who are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.

0:55.4

Today, we're joined by Eric Nussbaum, who's here to talk about his book, Stealing Home. We'll get to that in just a second.

1:02.1

First, though, I'd like to remind everybody to please make sure you're subscribed to baseball by

1:06.5

the book on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or whatever your podcast app of choice is.

1:14.2

And while you're there, please make sure to leave a five-star rating and a review for the podcast.

1:19.2

All right, let's get on with today's show.

1:22.1

Eric Nussbaum is a writer and former editor advice.

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