Episode 257: "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Author Kat Williams joins us to discuss the remarkable life of Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez, who came to United States at fifteen, speaking no English, to play professional baseball. Williams take us on a journey from Cuba to the AAGPBL and through years of anonymity and alcoholism before baseball once again gave her life meaning.

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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 Pellet
0:11.0	The Giants
0:12.0	The Pellet
0:13.0	The One Constant
0:14.0	Through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball
0:17.0	Oh,
0:19.0	Put me in cold I'm ready to play today.
0:25.6	Hey, everybody. I'm just a McIreier, and this is me, I can be center of you.
0:44.9	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:50.5	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.
0:53.7	Well, guys, this week's episode is a day late
0:55.8	because of the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, so let's get right to it. We are joined today by
1:01.7	Kat Williams. She is a professor of women's sports history at Marshall University, and she is
1:07.8	the president and a founding member of the International Women's Baseball Center.
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