'The Time has Come' author Will Leitch talks Cardinals, writing, and the dean of Cardinals writers

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Note: The planned Best Podcast in Baseball episode with author Will Leitch, of New York Magazine and MLB.com, begins at 18:20. While recording a conversation with Leitch about his new novel, the cameo in it by the Cardinals, and his beginnings as a sportswriter, Best Podcast in Baseball host Derrick Goold had to step aside to write a tribute and obituary for Hall of Fame journalist and longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Rick Hummel. This episode begins with a memorial of Hummel from two people have shared a page in the newspaper with him -- one for a brief wonderful time as a Cardinals fan and forever reader of the Post-Dispatch and the other for 20 years as a colleague and sidekick at the ballpark. The previously recorded episode about Leitch's new novel, how sports writing influences his storytelling, and his view of the 2023 Cardinals, Willson Contreras, and if the recent upswing in their success is real -- or, like any novel, a red herring. The Best Podcast in 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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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:29.7	We should start will with uh with well i'll just begin here we had a podcast we were having a conversation we were talking about your new book um and i had to leave in the middle of it for
0:36.4	for reasons that are probably now all clear.
0:40.0	But I think that's a good place to start our conversation.
0:44.7	I'm with author Will Leach of the book The Time Has Come, former colleague.
0:49.6	We were both special to the post dispatch.
0:52.1	We also got to work with probably the person who is most special to the post dispatch, and that is the late great Rick Hummel.
0:58.9	Will, thank you for joining me.
1:01.0	I want to start just by you grew up a Cardinal fan.
1:06.5	That means you grew up getting your hands on the post dispatch as often as possible.
1:11.7	And does that mean that you grew up clipping and reading and following the Rick Hummel byline?
1:17.8	Of course.
1:18.2	I mean, I remember the first time I had a piece in the post dispatch.
1:22.8	And it was, I think Hummel had a notebook.
1:26.5	Like a Saturday notebook.
1:28.5	Sunday notebook, yeah.
1:29.5	Because that's exactly what it was.
1:31.0	It would have been a Sunday notes column the day after I'd filed probably a sidebar on
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