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Baseball by the Book

Episode 264: "Cleveland Rocked"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9655 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 1995, the once-lowly Cleveland Indians dominated the American League and slugged their way to the World Series for the first time in four decades.  Author Zack Meisel joins us to discuss Albert Belle, Jim Thome, Kenny Lofton and the rest of team that captured the heart of a generation of Cleveland baseball fans. 

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The one

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The one side

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I tell the me, I believe

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The Giants

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The Giants

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The Pellant!

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The Giants!

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The Giants!

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The Pellet!

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The giant!

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The one constant through all the years, Ray,

0:15.0

has been baseball.

0:17.0

Oh, put me in cold

0:21.3

I'm ready to play

0:23.6

today. me, I can be center of you.

0:47.3

Hello, citizens of the world. I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the book, the only podcast that matters. Yes, that's right. This is the podcast in which we talk to authors of

0:53.1

baseball books past and present.

0:55.4

Let's get right to it today. We are joined by Zach Meisel, who covers the Cleveland baseball team for the athletic,

1:01.8

and previously cover the team for Cleveland.com and MLB.com. Today he's here to talk about

1:08.0

Cleveland Rocked, the personalities, sluggers, and magic of the 1995

1:14.0

Indians. And I just want to mention that I had this conversation with Zach before Cleveland

1:19.2

announced that it's thinking about changing its team name. So we don't address that at all in the

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