Episode 303: "The Captain and Me"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ron Blomberg and Thurman Munson may have seemed like an odd couple, but the gregarious kid from Georgia and the grumpy All-Star catcher were the best of friends on the Yankee squads of the early 1970s. Author Dan Epstein joins us to explain how he and Blomberg got together to tell the story of an unlikely friendship that ended in tragedy.

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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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0:31.4	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is episode 303 of Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:37.8	That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present. Let's get right to it today. Author Dan Epstein
0:42.7	returns to the podcast. He is the author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass, which is about
0:48.3	baseball in the 70s, as well as Stars and Strikes, which is about the 1976 baseball season.
0:55.0	He has been on the podcast to discuss both those books.
0:58.3	Dan was also a guest on our bonus episode about 70s baseball movies.
1:03.0	So be sure to check that out if you're a patron of baseball by the book.
1:06.8	Today he's here to talk about a new book, which he co-authored with former Yankee Ron Bloomberg.
1:12.4	It's called The Captain and Me, on and off the field with Thurman Munson.
1:17.7	Let's get started.
1:21.4	Hi, Dan, welcome back to baseball by the book.
1:23.9	Hey, Justin. It's great to be back.
1:26.0	So I know from talking to you in the past and from
1:28.8	reading your other books that you grew up as a Tigers fan in the late 1970s, about the same time
1:35.3	that I was growing up as an Orioles fan. And you say something in here that was interesting to me,
1:40.7	because the Tigers were, of course, in the AL East back in those days,
1:48.7	and of course that meant they were rivals with the Yankees. But despite that, you say that you really like Thurman Munson, and in fact, he was your favorite catcher. Why did you decide to
1:54.4	become a Thurman Munson fan, even though he was on the hated Yankees? Well, I mean, the
1:59.3	the Yankees weren't so hated in Detroit. It was,
2:03.6	you know, it wasn't like, I don't know, it wasn't like growing up in Boston and hating the Yankees.
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