Hang Up and Listen - The Man Who Followed Jackie Robinson

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🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the sports world’s pandemic purgatory. They also ponder what sports feats have still yet to be achieved. Finally, Luke Epplin joins to discuss his book Our Team and the story of Larry Doby, the second player to break baseball’s modern color barrier.

Pandemic purgatory (3:11): What to make of the Texas Rangers’ full stadium and the Vancouver Canucks’ 20-plus positive COVID tests.

Rare sports feats (20:30): The Padres have, at last, thrown a no-hitter. What achievement can we cross of the list next?

Larry Doby (35:37): The first Black player in the American League was a pioneer in his own right.

Afterball (54:30): Joel on North Carolina’s JV men’s basketball team.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see.
0:10.0	Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 12th, 2021.
0:16.9	On this week's show, we're going to talk about the Texas Rangers opening their stadium at full capacity.
0:22.1	The Vancouver Canucks having more than 20 positive COVID cases and other scenes from the sports world's pandemic purgatory.
0:29.8	We'll also discuss what sports achievements remain undone now that the San Diego Padres have thrown their first no-hitter. And Luke Epplin
0:39.5	will be here for a conversation about his book, Our Team, on the 1948 Cleveland Indians
0:44.5	and the lesser-known story of the second black player in the major leagues, Larry Dobie.
0:50.3	I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of Slow Burn Season 4 on David Duke.
0:56.1	Also in D.C., I think I got it right this week.
1:00.1	Stefan Fatsis, author of the book Word Freak in a few seconds of panic.
1:04.2	I just live in fear of getting your location wrong, Stefan.
1:08.2	You tore the pain off the walls last week. I did. I mean, it was pretty
1:13.1	obvious where I was or where I wasn't. I mean, you know what my background looks like here in D.C.
1:19.3	Is there a Broncos helmet? Yes. Okay. I think we're good. Yeah. I think you are in D.C.
1:24.9	And with us from the West Coast, the reliable Joel Anderson, Slate Staff
1:31.0	Writer, host of Slow Burn, season three, and the upcoming season six. Hello, Joel.
1:35.0	Yo, good morning. How are y'all doing? Doing well. Have you thought about putting up a TCU helmet?
1:40.0	No. I don't have any, I still have a lot of... Do you have any of old stuff? Yeah, do you have a TCU helmet? I know. I don't have any, I still have a lot of... Do you have any of the old stuff? Yeah, do you have a TCU helmet? I know. I don't think people were getting helmets back in the 90s like that. I have like a little bit of warm up gear and my old cleats, which I think, I'm pretty sure I stole. I don't think I was allowed to take those, but I took them anyway.
2:01.7	I think you should encase them in Lusite, maybe.
2:05.1	Or maybe send them to the TCU Sports Hall of Fame.
2:08.1	Oh, yeah.
2:09.0	I'm sure that they could use a door jam or something like that.
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