Episode 263: "Doc"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A phenom at 22, nearly out of baseball at 23, Roy Halladay bounced back to become one of the dominant pitchers of the 2000s before injuries derailed his career. Along the way, he earned two Cy Young awards and pitched a perfect game and a postseason no-hitter. Todd Zolecki joins us to discuss the remarkable, tragic story of a pitcher who was groomed for greatness.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell of 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.
0:39.7	Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McWire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:46.5	Yes, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to
0:51.3	authors of baseball books past and present. Today we are joined by Todd
0:55.6	Zolecki, who's here to talk about his new biography of Hall of Famer Roy Halliday. We'll get to that in
1:01.4	just a second. First, though, I want to mention that I recently had the honor of moderating a Zoom
1:07.1	panel discussion for the pandemic baseball book Club. We talked about baseball icons
1:13.1	and iconoclasts, including Willie Mays, Yogi Berra, Billy Martin, Fernando Valenzuela, and Jim Bouton.
1:21.5	The authors on that panel were John Shea, John Pessa, Mitch Nathanson, Dale Tofoya, and Jason Turbo. You may recognize those
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