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

matters. 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. Today we are joined by Benjamin

Hockman. He's an award-winning columnist for the St. Louis Post Dispatch

and has previously written for The Denver Post and the New Orleans Times Picayune.

He is the author of The Big 50, St. Louis Cardinals, and the co-author of If These Walls Could Talk,

Colorado Rockies. Today he's here to talk about 11 in 11, a hometown

hero, LaRusa's last ride in red, and a Miracle World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals. Let's get

started. Hi, Ben.

Welcome to baseball by the book.

Thanks for having me.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well.

Thank you.

The first thing I need to ask you is, and this is a question, I don't know you can

actually answer, but how in the heck has it been 10 years since that 2011 postseason?

I was reading your book.

I was like, this stuff didn't

happen 10 years ago. This was like last year. This was, this was like last week. It seems so recent to me.

You know what I mean? Yeah, we're getting old, man. That's what's happening. Yeah, I think I'm already there.

But yeah, it is amazing because I remember that postseason, because I'm an Orioles fan, and I remember the walkoff

Robert Andino against the Red Sox, which was the first good thing that had happened to the

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