Episode 272: "Deaf Players in Major League Baseball"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Since the earliest of big league baseball, deaf players have been part of the National Pastime. Author R.A.R. Edwards joins us to share the stories of "Dummy" Hoy, "Dummy" Taylor, Curtis Pride and other hearing-impaired players who had an impact on the game both on and off the field.

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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 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.
0:39.9	Hey, everybody, and welcome to Baseball by the Book, a podcast that matters.
0:44.9	That's right, everybody.
0:45.9	You are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors
0:50.6	of baseball books past and present.
0:53.0	Today we have what I think is a really interesting episode.
0:55.7	We talk to author R.A.R. Edwards about her new book,
0:59.7	Deaf Players in Major League Baseball.
1:02.4	We'll get to that in just a second.
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