Episode 258: "The Called Shot"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Did Babe Ruth really call his shot? Author Thomas Wolf takes us back to the baseball season of 1932, which included an off-field shooting, a spectacular pennant race and one of the most storied events in baseball history — which may not have happened at all.

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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.
0:21.6	I'm ready to play today.
0:23.6	Put me in cold. me, I can be center of you.
0:47.6	Hey everybody, I'm Justin McWire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:53.4	That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books,
0:54.9	past and present. Today we are joined by author Thomas Wolfe, who's here to talk about his book,
1:01.3	The Called Shot. First, though, I want to let everybody know that I have an extra copy of the
1:06.7	called shot that I'm going to make available to some lucky listener. To qualify to win this
1:11.8	free copy, all you have to do is go to our Twitter account, which is at Baseball Book Pod, and then
1:18.2	retweet the tweet in which I mention this contest. The tweet will be pinned to the top, so it'll be
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