It all started at a bicycle race. Let Post-Dispatch great Rick Hummel tell you a story

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sit back and let Rick Hummel spin a yarn. In 2021, as Rick Hummel celebrated his 50th year at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and neared what would be the 41st of 42 consecutive Major League Baseball All-Star Games, the giant of baseball journalism was a guest on the Best Podcast in Baseball. Few writers appeared as often or were quoted as much on the podcast through its first decade, and it is an honor to represent this episode.

From earlier: What started at a bicycle race and put him on the road with the Cardinals and in an elevator with the champ continues today in a press box carrying his name: Rick Hummel. The Hall of Fame baseball writer and member of just about every Hall of Fame for sports and sportswriting in the greater St. Louis area, Hummel began his career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 50 years ago this July 3. And he hasn't stopped. He'll cover his 41st Major League Baseball All-Star Game that same month and be back on the road to Pittsburgh soon after that. In a brand new edition of the Best Podcast in Baseball, recorded in the Bob Broeg/Rick Hummel press box at Busch Stadium, baseball writer Derrick Goold talks to his longtime colleague about his favorite stories, how his writing as changed, and just what changes the 2021 Cardinals need to break loose from the middle of the standings and .500.

The Best Podcast Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:17.3	Well, the one, it was exclusive to baseball, was of Muhammad Ali when I came across him.
0:23.1	I wanted just to talk to him about Leon Spinks a little bit, so I see him going through
0:27.1	the lobby of the Las Vegas Hilton one time, and he's got a big line of people behind him,
0:31.6	of course, and I'm trying to get to the front of the line, and we're going through
0:34.0	casinos and, you know, machines and stuff. And finally I get to the elevator and tell him who I am, what I'm doing.
0:39.9	He says, get on.
0:41.2	And he says, what do you want to know?
0:42.9	I thought, this is going.
0:44.2	This is too easy.
0:46.5	So I ask him a few questions.
0:48.6	And then he says, okay, now I've done you a favor.
0:51.8	Can you do one for me?
0:52.9	I thought, oh, brother, what is he talking about here?
0:55.9	Well, this was the year that he was delivering commencement addresses at Harvard and Oxford.
1:01.5	He wanted me to hear what he was going to give to the second group.
1:08.6	He had to be polished up the first one, you know, I guess.
1:10.8	And I was spellbound.
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