Hang Up and Listen - Remembering Willie Mays
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin share their thoughts on baseball legend Willie Mays, who died last week at age 93. Morgan Campbell of the CBC also joins to analyze the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials and to look at how the sports world turned on Drake.
Mays (3:02): His greatest catch, the racism he faced, and his run-in with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn.
Track (28:05): Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles roared to victories in the 100 meters.
Drake and sports (46:45): Drake’s NBA “friends” appear to be siding with Kendrick Lamar.
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| 0:26.8 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:29.5 | If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 24, |
| 0:51.0 | 2024. On this week's show, we'll share our thoughts on one of the greatest 24. |
| 0:52.5 | On this week show we'll share our thoughts on one of the greatest baseball players of all time, |
| 0:56.3 | maybe the greatest, Willie Mace, who died last week at age 93. |
| 1:01.6 | Morgan Campbell of the CBC will also join us for a couple segments |
| 1:04.6 | first to analyze the US Olympic track and field trials where Shakary Richardson and |
| 1:09.6 | Noah Liles roared to victories and the Women's and Men's 100 meters. |
| 1:14.0 | And we'll look at how the sports world turned on Canada's own Drake. |
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