Episode 283: "Havana Hardball"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In February 1947, as the Cuban League pennant race culminated in a dramatic showdown between bitter rivals Almendares and Habana, Brooklyn Dodgers minor leaguer Jackie Robinson arrived on the island with his teammates for spring training. César Brioso joins us to discuss the remarkable confluence of historic events in baseball-mad Old Havana.

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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.
0:26.5	Put me in cold.
0:28.7	I'm ready to play today.
0:32.6	Look at me.
0:34.6	I can be.
0:36.2	San Diego.
0:40.3	Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:47.1	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.
0:55.2	Today, Caesar Briozor returns to the podcast to talk about his 2015 book, Havana Hardball.
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