Episode 298: "The Only Way is the Steady Way"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Author Andrew Forbes joins us to discuss his new collection of essays on Ichiro Suzuki and other baseball topics, including the 2003 Tigers, Tris Speaker and Pedro Guerrero. Plus, we chat about baseball under the shadow of COVID and nuclear annihilation.

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0:00.0	Support Baseball By the Book by becoming a patron for as little as $2 a month.
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0:10.8	Black the throws.
0:12.1	There's a long time I tell of me, I believe.
0:15.1	The giant's plunder pellet.
0:16.9	The giant's blood of the public.
0:18.2	The giant's love the public.
0:18.2	The giant's public.
0:20.3	The giant's black of the public. The one from the planet! The giant for the planet!
0:22.6	The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
0:26.6	Oh, put me in cold.
0:30.6	I'm ready to play today.
0:35.6	Put me in cold. I'm ready to play today. Today, Come in, coach,
0:39.7	I'm ready to play.
0:46.6	Today, look at me, I can be sent to feel.
0:55.6	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:59.3	That's right, folks, who are once again listening to Baseball by the Book,
1:03.8	the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
1:05.6	Folks, let's get right to it today.
1:08.0	We are joined by author Andrew Forbes. He is the author of several story collections, including The Utility
1:12.1	of Boredom, Baseball Essays. Today he's here to talk about his new collection. It's called
1:18.1	The Only Way is the Steady Way, Essays on Baseball, Ishiro, and How We Watch the Game.
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