Episode 261: "Mrs. Morhard and the Boys"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Before there was the Little League World Series, there was the Little World Series, played at Cleveland's League Park in 1941. Author Ruth Hanford Morhard joins us to talk about the remarkable story of a single mother who pioneered youth baseball in the years before World War II.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I said to me, I believe
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Giants
0:10.0	The Pellant!
0:12.0	The Giants!
0:13.0	The giant!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:19.0	Oh, put me in cold. I'm ready center of you.
0:46.6	Hello, citizens of the world. I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters. That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by
0:50.9	the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and
0:55.1	presents. Well, folks, I have to admit that in the course of doing this podcast, I rarely run into a bit of
1:00.9	baseball history that's entirely new to me. In the case of Mrs. Morhard and the boys, though,
1:06.5	that's definitely the case. If you ever played in Little League or any other organized youth baseball
1:12.0	league, I think this episode is going to be of great interest to you. So let's get right to it.
1:16.9	We are joined by author Ruth Hanford-Morhard. She holds a certificate in creative nonfiction from
1:23.2	Stanford University. She's the president of Ruth Reed and Company, a marketing and communications
1:29.2	consultancy. Today she's here to talk about a book she wrote about her late mother-in-law.
1:34.9	It's called Mrs. Morhard and the Boys, One Mother's Vision, the First Boys Baseball League,
1:40.7	a nation inspired. Let's get started.
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