Episode 266: "24"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After nearly nine decades on the planet, baseball legend Willie Mays has plenty of stories to tell and life lessons to impart on younger generations. We are joined by author John Shea, who spent countless hours interviewing Mays and a host of others, including Hank Aaron, Barack Obama and Barry Bonds, to produce a memoir of the Say Hey Kid's life and legacy.

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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 Giants!
0:13.0	The Pellet!
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.
0:41.3	Say hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, a podcast that matters.
0:47.4	That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:55.4	Let's get right to it today. We are joined by John Shea, who is an award-winning national baseball
1:00.8	columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He has written several books, including the autobiography
1:06.7	of Hall of Famer Ricky Henderson, which was called Off Base, Confessions of a Thief.
1:12.6	Today he's here to talk about 24, life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid,
1:18.6	which he co-wrote with the legendary Willie Mays.
1:22.0	Thanks to Dan Newman for his help in putting this episode together.
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