Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.

That's right, folks, who are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.

Today we are joined by author Lawrence Baldassarro, who's here to talk about his new biography of Hall of Famer Tony

Lazzari. We'll get to that in just a minute. First, though, I'd like to thank the following

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all you have to do is go to patreon.com slash baseball by the book. All right, let's get on to today's

episode. Lawrence Baldassarro is a professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

He is the author of

Beyond DiMaggio, Baseball Italian Style, and the Ted Williams reader. Today he's here to discuss his

new book. It's called Tony Lazeri, Yankees Legend, and Baseball Pioneer. I'd like to thank

Dan Newman for his help in putting this episode together.

And as always, thanks to Jay Daniel, who does all our social media graphics.

Let's get started.

Hi, Larry. Welcome to baseball by the book.

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