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Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up Extra: Brooklyn's Baseball Graves

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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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0:29.4

Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.

0:45.0

My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,

0:50.0

including Cheryl and Aifel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.

0:54.5

All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,

1:00.9

has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been

1:05.7

doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the

1:10.3

rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.

1:26.5

But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th

1:31.8

to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation.

1:36.2

Go to slate.com slash Amicus live for tickets. So we're get inside this accurate TLX. We're going to go to a cemetery because on the coldest most horrible day of the year you definitely want to go to a cemetery.

1:57.0

People are dead and cold and in the graves, but it's not about mourning the dead, it's about celebrating really cool graveyards.

2:08.9

All right, so I'm joined here by Josh Levine. You might know him best as the host of Hang Up and Listen, the Slate Podcast.

2:17.0

He's also the managing editor of Slate.

2:20.0

Is that right?

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