Episode 287: "Zack Wheat"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Zack Wheat was among the greatest players in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of baseball's most storied teams. So why has the Hall of Fame outfielder been largely forgotten? Author Jon Niese joins us to discuss the life and career of the hard-hitting lefty.

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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
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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.
0:40.3	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:47.3	That's right, folks. It's a new year, and we're back with brand new episodes of the podcast
0:52.0	in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:56.1	Today we are joined by author Joe Neese, who's here to talk about his biography of Hall of
1:00.6	Famer Zach Wheat. We'll get to that in just a second. First, though, I want to remind everybody
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