Episode 317: "The Baseball 100"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Where does Pete Rose rank on the list of baseball's all-time best players? Was Barry Bonds better than Henry Aaron? Where do players like Sadaharu Oh and Josh Gibson belong on a list of the top 100 players? Author Joe Posnanski joins us to discuss those questions and many more.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that
0:22.9	matters. That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which
0:28.6	we talk to authors of baseball books past and present. Well, I suppose a lot of you have been
0:33.8	wondering where we've been the last few months, especially if you're not on social media and haven't had an opportunity to see my explanation there. Long story short, I started
0:43.2	a new job over the summer, and that means that I'm going to an office five days a week for the
0:48.1	first time since I started the podcast back in 2016. That's good news for me and for my family,
0:54.8	but it means that I don't have the time to devote to the podcast that I used to.
0:58.9	Right now, there's just no way for me to do baseball by the book on a weekly basis
1:02.8	with all my job responsibilities.
1:05.6	I frankly don't know what the future holds for the podcast,
1:08.9	but I'm hoping that I can do an occasional interview,
1:11.3	like the one you're about to hear, and perhaps get back into a regular schedule at some point.
1:16.3	Again, though, I'm not exactly sure if and when that might happen.
1:20.1	For now, the idea is that I'll do an episode when I have an opportunity to.
1:24.3	If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at Baseballbook
1:29.1	podcast at gmail.com. Okay, let's get on with today's episode. Joe Posnansky has written for
1:37.5	the athletic, Sports Illustrated, NBC Sports, and a bunch of other places, and he currently
1:43.5	writes at Joe Posnanski.com.
1:46.8	He's the author of several books, including The Soul of Baseball and the Machine.
1:53.0	Today, he's here to talk about the Baseball 100. Let's get started.
2:00.3	Hi, Joe, welcome back to Baseball by the book. It's great to be back. It's been a little while
2:05.5	since I've been on the show. Yeah, I think it's been about four years. You were on to talk about
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