Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up Extra: Brooklyn's Baseball Graves
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Mike Pesca drives Josh Levin to Brooklyn's 176-year-old Green-Wood Cemetery. On a tour led by the cemetery's historian, they visit the graves of two great (but definitely dead) baseball pioneers. This extra was recorded on the 2014 National Gabfest Tour made possible by Acura.
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| 0:00.0 | So, we're getting inside this Accura TLX. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to go to a cemetery because on the coldest, most horrible day of the year, you definitely want to go to a cemetery. |
| 0:14.0 | People are dead and cold and in the graves, but it's not about mourning the dead. |
| 0:20.0 | It's about celebrating really cool graveyards. |
| 0:25.6 | All right, so I'm joined here by Josh Levine. You might know him best as the host of Hang Up and |
| 0:31.6 | Listen, the Slate podcast. He's also the managing editor of Slate. Is that right? Executive editor. He's also the executive editor of Slate. Is that right? Executive editor. |
| 0:38.2 | He's also the executive editor of Slate. |
| 0:41.0 | And we got some clickety-click, which is the, what do you call? |
| 0:44.9 | Hazard Lights. |
| 0:46.7 | There they are. |
| 0:48.2 | Ah. |
| 0:50.4 | Okay, so we're going to Greenwood Cemetery. |
| 0:52.9 | That was your suggestion. |
| 0:54.3 | Mike, I'm an out-of-towner. |
| 0:56.0 | I've lived in D.C. for 12 years. |
| 0:57.8 | Come up to New York occasionally, but I've not been to this cemetery. |
| 1:02.9 | Is this a place where you take all of your dates? |
| 1:05.3 | Your dates, your friends, your loved ones. |
| 1:07.3 | I do. |
| 1:08.0 | Of course, I'm, as you know, a committed goth. And so, seances go on here. So this is a cemetery. This is, this is, this is a, an historic cemetery. And I don't know if you're an historic person. You, you, you, you, so. I think that that's, I think that's an anachronism. And I think that when you're talking about people who died in, you know, the 1860s, that's the proper way to honor them. We've got a lot of civil war figures in this cemetery. You've got, I think, three or four people who are credited as being the father of baseball in this cemetery. Yeah. There's one that I'm just really excited for you to say. |
| 1:47.3 | Can we do like a Mori Popovich kind of DNA test or we can determine who actually is the father of baseball? |
| 1:53.8 | Yes. |
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