Episode 309: "The Giants and Their City"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

From 1976 to 1992, the San Francisco Giants were mostly mediocre, rarely loved in their own city and constantly looking for a way to get out of frigid Candlestick Park. But, author Lincoln Mitchell says, this forgotten era helped lay the groundwork for all the success the team has experienced in the 21st century.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:23.7	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.
0:32.1	Today, author Lincoln Mitchell returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, The Giants and Their City.
0:39.1	We'll get to that in just a minute.
0:41.6	First, though, I'd like to thank the following people for supporting baseball by the book
0:45.7	on Patreon.
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1:12.1	One of the top benefits, of course, is access to all our bonus episodes.
1:17.7	Coming up later this week, we're going to have a panel discussion of Fred Leeb's classic book,
1:23.2	Baseball as I Have Known It. And then coming up later in the month, we're going to take an in-depth look at a 1980 episode of the TV series MASH that focused on the 1951 NL Penit Race.
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1:35.6	simply go to patreon.com slash baseball by the book.
1:41.8	Okay, let's get on to today's episode.
1:45.4	Lincoln Mitchell is an author who has previously appeared on baseball by the book to discuss
1:49.4	his books, Will Big League Baseball Survive, Baseball Goes West, and San Francisco Year
1:55.3	Zero.
1:56.6	Today he's here to talk about his new book.
1:58.8	It's called The Giants and Their City, Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976 to 1992.
2:07.3	Let's get started.
2:10.9	Hi, Lincoln.
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