Episode 271: "Miracle on Grass"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Twenty years ago this month, Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda led a group of minor leaguers to an improbable Gold Medal win over the mighty Cubans at the Summer Olympics in Australia. Author David Fanucchi, who was there to see the whole thing, joins us to discuss how Ben Sheets, Doug Mientkiewicz and the rest shocked the world.

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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.
0:40.3	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, possibly your favorite
0:46.2	podcast. That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast
0:52.3	in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:56.5	Today we are joined by David Finucci, who's here to talk about his book, Miracle on Grass,
1:02.7	which is all about the 2000 USA Olympic baseball team.
1:06.9	We'll get to that in just a minute.
1:09.0	First, though, I want to give everybody an update on our
1:11.5	Patreon page, which I announced last week. I have to say that I'm overwhelmed by the generosity
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