Episode 277: "Eddie Cicotte"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Eddie Cicotte was a stocky right-hander who used a dizzying array of junk pitches to become one of the Deadball Era's top hurlers. Then he threw it all away. Author David Fleitz joins us to discuss the sad tale of "Knuckles," the man who played a key role in fixing the 1919 World Series ― and a key role in exposing the scandal.

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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 to play today.
0:23.6	Hey, everybody. Hey everybody. me, I can be center of you.
0:46.6	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:54.3	That's right, folks. You're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
1:00.4	Today, author David Flights returns to the podcast. He's here to talk about his new biography of Eddie Seacott, one of the eight men banned from baseball for life for his role in the 1919
1:05.8	Black Sox scandal. We'll get to that in just a second. First, though, I'd like to thank the following people
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