Episode 275: "How Baseball Happened"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Baseball has been lying about its own origins for more than 150 years, author Thomas W. Gilbert says. Half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies have been the order of the day from Alexander Cartwright to Abner Doubleday to the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The real story of how baseball emerged as the national game in the 19th century is far more fascinating than the officially sanctioned myths, Gilbert says.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell the me, I believe
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Giants
0:10.0	The Pellant!
0:12.0	The Giants!
0:13.0	The giant!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:19.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:21.6	I'm ready to play today.
0:24.6	Put me in cold.
0:27.6	I'm ready to play today.
0:31.6	Look at me.
0:33.6	I can be
0:35.6	San Diego. Hey, everybody. me, I can be center of you.
0:42.6	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire.
0:46.6	This is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:55.2	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.
1:00.1	Folks, today we are joined by Thomas W. Gilbert, who's here to talk about his new book,
1:03.7	How Baseball Happened. We'll get to that in just a minute.
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