Hang Up and Listen - LeBron and Bronny
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Joel Anderson talk to the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas about the 55th pick in last week’s NBA draft: LeBron James’ son, Bronny. Plus, Joel and Josh Levin interview Wil Aaron about racism in baseball in the decades after Jackie Robinson.
Bronny James (3:33): LeBron James wanted to play with his kid in the NBA. Will that be good for Bronny?
Wil Aaron (20:54): Hank Aaron’s cousin on his frustrating years in minor-league baseball.
Afterball (54:06): Stefan on Turkey vs. Türkiye at the 2024 Euros.
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| 0:39.0 | Hi, I'm Stephan Fatsis, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 1st, |
| 0:43.7 | 2024. |
| 0:45.3 | Louisa Thomas of the New Yorker will be here to talk about the 55th pick in |
| 0:49.3 | last week's NBA draft, a 19 year old-old, 6-foot-2 guard with 25 games of college experience whose father |
| 0:57.0 | is a veteran NBA player. Stay tuned to learn their identities. We'll also continue our recent conversations about race and baseball with an interview |
| 1:06.9 | with Hank Aaron's cousin, Will Aaron, who's featured in a new oral history, under Jackie's Shadow, |
| 1:14.0 | Voices of Black Minor Leaguers, Baseball Left Behind. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm the author of Word Freak, a few seconds of panic, |
| 1:20.7 | and Wild and Outside, I'm in Washington, D.C. Coming to us from Palo Alto. of |
| 1:25.0 | panic and Wild and Outside, I'm in Washington, D.C. coming to us from Palo Alto, California. |
| 1:26.0 | It's Slate Staff writer Joel Anderson. |
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