Episode 284: "The Baseball Talmud"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sandy Koufax or Hank Greenberg? Or maybe Lou Boudreau? It's a special Hanukkah episode as author Howard Megdal joins us to debate the greatest Jewish baseball players of all time, from Lip Pike to Alex Bregman. Find out why Ryan Braun has hurt his standing, why Rod Carew doesn't make the list and why one former player belongs in the International Clown Hall of Fame.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I said to 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.
0:39.6	Hey, everybody. I'm be center of you. Hey everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that
0:45.7	matters. That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast
0:50.9	in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:55.0	Well, folks, to commemorate the beginning of Hanukkah this week, we have a special episode
0:58.9	for you.
1:00.0	We're joined by Howard Megdal, who's here to talk about his book, The Baseball Talmud.
1:05.0	We'll get to that in just a second.
1:06.8	First, though, I'd like to thank the following people for supporting baseball by the book
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