Episode 269: "Pride of Smoketown"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords, featuring Hall of Famers like Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, are considered by many to be the greatest team in the history of the Negro Leagues. Frederick C. Bush and Bill Nowlin join us to discuss the legendary squad, its racketeer owner and the star who was missing that season.

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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.
0:21.6	I'm ready center of you.
0:46.6	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, a podcast that matters.
0:52.8	That's right, folks, who are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:55.9	I'm sure that most of you listening to this podcast know that on Sunday, August 16th, which
1:01.0	was two days ago as you listened to this for the first time, Major League Baseball
1:04.8	commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues. In conjunction with that, I took to our
1:10.2	Twitter account on Sunday and highlighted some of the books aboutagues. In conjunction with that, I took to our Twitter account on Sunday and highlighted
1:12.7	some of the books about black baseball that we featured on baseball by the book over the last
1:17.1	several years. So, for instance, I've got links to our interview with Joe Posnansky, where we talked
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