Episode 292: "Ken Williams"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For a period in the early 1920s, Ken Williams rivaled Babe Ruth as the top slugger in baseball — kind of. Author Dave Heller returns to the podcast to talk about the brief but memorable career of the St. Louis Browns star who became MLB's first 30-30 man and ignited a Hall of Fame debate that continues to this day.

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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.
0:22.0	I'm ready to play today.
0:39.8	Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that
0:45.3	matters. That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book,
0:49.7	the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:55.2	Today, Dave Heller returns to the podcast.
0:58.2	He's here to talk about his biography of St. Louis Brown's slugger Ken Williams.
1:02.7	We'll get to that in just a second.
1:05.3	First, though, I want to thank the following people for supporting baseball by the book on Patreon.
1:10.9	Keith Toby, Jack from Jersey, and Matt Larr.
1:15.6	And just remember, if you want to join them, all you have to do is go to
1:19.1	patreon.com slash baseball by the book.
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