Episode 296: "Lights, Camera, Fastball"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Hollywood Stars were the team of, well, Hollywood stars. For two decades, Gilmore Field in Los Angeles was the place to be for celebrities from Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart to Barbara Stanwyck and Groucho Marx. Author Dan Taylor joins us to discuss the remarkable run of the Pacific Coast League franchise that pioneered air travel and TV and introduced the world to baseball uniform shorts.

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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.
0:39.9	Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:46.7	That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:54.7	Today we take a trip back to old Hollywood with author Dan Taylor.
0:59.0	He's here to talk about his new book, Lights Camera Fastball,
1:03.1	which is all about the old Hollywood stars of the Pacific Coast League.
1:06.9	We'll get to that in just a minute.
1:09.4	First, though, I'd like to thank Paul Sallie, Mike Gersh, and Joe Lindholm for supporting
1:14.8	baseball by the book on Patreon.
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