Episode 330: "Welcome to the Circus of Baseball"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

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

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ryan McGee spent the summer of 1994 working as a $100-a-week intern for the Class-A Asheville Tourists of the South Atlantic League. Three decades later, McGee —now a senior writer for ESPN — has written a memoir about his misadentures in the low minor leagues. He tells us why he loves Asheville's historic McCormick Field, recounts how he witnessed a comical on-field brawl and explains how he knows what it was like to kiss Elvis.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that
0:23.4	matters. That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in
0:29.1	which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present. Today, Ryan McGee returns to the podcast
0:34.5	for the first time since 2017. Ryan's a senior writer for ESPN and co-host of
0:40.9	Marty and McGee on ESPN Radio and the SEC Network. He's the author of several books, including
0:46.5	The New York Times bestseller, Racing to the Finish, with NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr.
0:52.9	He previously appeared on baseball by the book to talk about his
0:56.0	book about the College World Series, The Road to Omaha. Let's get started. Hi, Ryan. Welcome
1:04.3	to a baseball by the book. Yeah, it's been a little bit, but I'm excited to be here. You know I'm a
1:08.7	fan, so I appreciate you, appreciate you thinking of me and
1:11.6	thinking of welcome to the circus of baseball. Yeah, it really has been a while. I actually looked
1:16.0	this up last night. The last time you were on the podcast was February 2017 when you came on
1:21.8	to talk about the Road to Omaha, your great book about the College World Series. So it's been
1:26.3	more than six years. And I think
1:28.0	you've set the record for longest time between appearances for any guest on the podcast. So congratulations
1:32.6	on that. Yeah, well, I appreciate that way. And you'll know when you finish the book, I also,
1:37.0	I hold the record for the longest amount of time between entry-level interview at ESPN and actual
1:42.6	hire at ESPN. So this kind of ties into the book.
1:46.7	Yeah, yeah, that was a detail that I was kind of found very interesting in the book when I was reading
1:51.7	it. Let's get into this a little bit. This book is about your experiences working as an intern for
1:56.6	the Asheville tourists in 1994. I first read that this book was coming out, I think in the fall
2:02.2	that was an announcement. I think you put it out on Twitter. That's probably where I first saw it.
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