Episode 260: "Let's Play Two"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Author Ron Rapoport had numerous conversations with Ernie Banks in anticipation of collaborating on an autobiography with the Hall of Fame slugger. That book never materialized, but Rapoport was able to put those interviews — and more than 100 others — to to use in writing the definitive account of a complicated man who hid behind the legend of Mr. Cub.

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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.
0:39.3	Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McIre.
0:41.4	This is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:46.2	That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which
0:50.7	we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:55.5	Well, folks, we are joined today by Ron Rappaport. You may remember that Ron was one of the panelists when I did an
1:01.1	episode at the nine baseball conference in Arizona a few months back. Today he's here to do a full
1:06.8	interview about his biography of Ernie Banks called Let's Play 2. If you're a long-time listener
1:12.3	of baseball by the book, you may be under the impression that you've already listened to this
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