The Boys of Summer: The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since

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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

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Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson

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Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball's Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It

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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life: The Heros Life

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Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir

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The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best

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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

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Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History

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The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932

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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age

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Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's

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Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever

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Branch Rickey

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The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse

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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game

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Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game

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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL

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Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game

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Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime

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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game

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Why Baseball Matters

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Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player

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42 Faith: The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story

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Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics

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Here's the Catch: A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More

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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

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Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

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The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best

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The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business

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Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks

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The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife

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Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess

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The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance

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Doc: A Memoir

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The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves

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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

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42 Faith: The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story

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Summer of '49

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Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played

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Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats that are Ruining the Game, the New Ones that are Running it, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball

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Mantle: The Best There Ever Was

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The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond

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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

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Wait Til Next Year

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Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players

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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

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108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game

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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

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The Chicken Runs at Midnight: A Daughter’s Message from Heaven That Changed a Father’s Heart and Won a World Series

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62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness

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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

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The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking

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Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life

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Audio Book Club: Killer Angels by Michael Shaara: Our critics, including Yale historian David Blight, discuss the Civil War classic The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara.

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Football, Tactics & History - with Jonathan Wilson: How did he write 'Inverting The Pyramid' in nine months? What does his desktop look like? Who's the most influential tactician of all time? Jonathan Wilson joins Tifo to answer all of these questions and more.

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Norm MacDonald: Norm MacDonald comes on the show and makes the whole Blackhorse Motors roar with laughter. We talk song lyrics, interviewing techniques, Richard Nixon and much more!

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The Story of Willard "Home Run" Brown | Featuring the Late Willard Brown: He was Ese Hombre. He was Sunny. He was Home Run Brown. He was Special Services for the US Army at the invasion of Normandy. And he was the Negro Leagues' greatest power hitter of the 1940's. Meet Willard Brown, through the stories of Bob Kendrick and the archived voice of Brown himself. Hear how the late Hall of Famer planned to be a Kansas City Monarch from an early age, and ended up rewriting their record books. Hear about his legendary tape-measure shots, and game-winning heroics, his larger-than-life persona in his career in Latin America, and the joy he brought to European troops hitting home runs for the Army in World War II. And don't miss the story of Willard Brown's historic, yet ill-fated, stint as the first Black player (alongside Hank Thompson) in St. Louis Browns history, and why it paled in comparison the competitive levels of the Negro Leagues.

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Sam Allen and Pedro Sierra | Former Negro Leaguers Tell Their Stories: When they speak, we listen. Former Negro Leaguers Sam Allen and Pedro Sierra join Bob Kendrick at All-Star Week in Seattle to tell their stories of triumph over adversity, in front of a live audience. Hear stories of long bus rides and hot beef stew while Sam Allen traveled with the Memphis Red Sox. Hear Pedro Sierra's first reactions to prejudice in the United States, after leaving his native Cuba to play in the Negro Leagues. Hear about former Negro-Leaguer-turned-Country-Music icon Charley Pride, Dapper Dizzy Dismukes, Ted Rasberry, and a skinny Indianapolis Clown named Henry Aaron. And hear firsthand, how Jackie Robinson changed two lives forever in 1947. Do not miss this very special conversation, with two of the last remaining storytellers of an unforgettable generation.

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#263 Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers

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Strike 9! Will the Fed Ever be Called Out?

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Fried Egg Stories, Episode 9: Jackie Robinson the Golfer: In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first Black man to play Major League Baseball in the 20th century. You're probably familiar with that story. What you may not know is that the baseball diamond was not the only playing field where Robinson advocated fo...

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Iron Mike Malloy: The Man Who Would Not Die: Depression-era New York was a tough time for a guy just looking to get by. The pressure of feeding a family, the lack of available work, the poor conditions suffered from much of the work that was available and at the end of the day, you couldn’t even r...

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W. Kamau Bell | How to Define Blackness in Baseball, Plus a Conversation About Glen Kuiper: What does it mean to forgive, but never forget? Bob Kendrick addresses the racial slur used, and apology given, by A's broadcaster Glen Kuiper, and why he himself has chosen the path of forgiveness, while using the moment to remember the triumph over adversity of Negro Leagues baseball. Bob also takes a moment to remember his dear friend and a member of the Black Aces, the late Vida Blue, before writer, documentarian, and comedian W. Kamau Bell joins Bob for a nuanced discussion of how Blackness has been defined through the history of baseball, on the heels of Bell's HBOMax documentary "1000% Me", examining mixed race identity. Where was the line drawn for light-skinned stars like Charlie Grant or John Donaldson? And why? Did the first ever Black Major Leaguer KNOW that he was Black? And how did Blackness evolve in baseball past a skin tone, and into an entire style of play? Laugh and learn wit

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S211: The Jolly Roger Social Club: You may remember Sharon McConnell-Dickerson from episode 8 titled “The Sculptor.” You know, the blind artist who casts the faces of dying blues musicians. When we first recorded that episode, she told me a story that quite frankly was hard to...

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52. No Witness No Crime Part 4: Final episode of a 4 part series To look at Skidmore Missouri, you would see what many Americans would see. Kids playing in the front yards, men in their older pickups waving at everyone they pass and folks chatting with with each other as they...

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Ramone Russell | Bringing the Negro Leagues to MLB: The Show 23: Imagine, stepping into the shoes of Satchel Paige to face Josh Gibson in the 1942 Negro Leagues World Series. With the bases loaded. And with every fielder on your side kneeling around the pitcher's mound. Starting this week, you can. Bob Kendrick sits down with Sony's Ramone Russell to tell the story of how the two of them have brought the Negro Leagues to life in this year's edition of MLB: The Show, and why it's already bringing baseball history, and American history, to a new generation like never before. Hear how the stadiums, the crowds, the uniforms, the windups, the swings, the slides, and most importantly, the stories were all recreated in living color, and how it all amounts to the most exciting year in the history of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

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WHEN GHOSTS COME HOME by Wiley Cash, read by JD Jackson: A tense thriller

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Wes Singletary | The Story of John Henry "Pop" Lloyd: Babe Ruth considered him the greatest player who had ever lived. Derek Jeter called him 'me, but with more power'. Bob Kendrick and Dr. Wes Singletary tell the story of John Henry "Pop" Lloyd, a Hall of Fame shortstop and the favorite son of Palatka, Florida. Hear about Pop's humble beginnings and meteoric rise through the Negro Leagues, his playing career that extended into his mid-40's, and his legacy that lasts far beyond. And most importantly, learn about the gentlemanly reputation, both in the game and elsewhere, that truly earned the man the nickname "Pop".

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E162: Billy Bragg on forty roaring years + Skiffle + Woody Guthrie: The left's very own "national treasure" Billy Bragg joins us to talk about his long and remarkable career

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E141: RJ Smith on Chuck Berry + Ice-T + Black L.A. + Wilko Johnson: In this episode we invite esteemed author RJ Smith to tell us about his career, his adopted Los Angeles, and his new biography of Chuck Berry. We start in Detroit, where RJ was raised on a diet of AM radio, the Stooges and Creem magazine, then follow him to New York and his decade of writing for the Village Voice. He talks about the impact of Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau before explaining why he followed the Voice's executive editor Kit Rachlis to California and the L.A. Weekly. We hear how he became fascinated by the pre-rock history of African-American L.A. and how that led to the publication of The Great Black Way (2008). His fourth book, Chuck Berry: An American Life, gives us the opportunity to discuss the problematic brilliance of St. Louis's "Black bard of white teen angst", a half-century after the creepy novelty comedy of 'My Ding-a-Ling' gave the Black-rock pioneer a No. 1 hit on both sides of the Atlan

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Cito Gaston | Breaking Barriers as a Black Manager, and Life with Henry Aaron: Why was there a 45-year gap between the first Black man to play in a World Series, and the first Black man to manage in a World Series? Former Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston sits down with Bob Kendrick for a wide-ranging discussion about breaking barriers as the first Black manager to win a World Series (and doing it twice), the importance of his matchup against Frank Robinson in 1989 as the first two Black managers to go face-to-face, his friendship with Dave Roberts and Dusty Baker and the emotions of seeing them each raise a trophy, the current state of the game for Black leadership, the lessons he learned as Henry Aaron's roommate, his idolization of the greats of the Negro Leagues, and one of the greatest joys of any baseball conversation - Rickey Henderson stories.

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On the road with the superstars of Negro League baseball, 100 years on: “Baseball history needs to be looked at again. The statistics dont make sense unless you understand the story that went behind those numbers.” – Phil S. Dixon In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Phil talk about the racial integration of Major League

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BONUS | Sridhar Pappu and Luke Epplin | A Salute to the Black Aces: Bob Kendrick joins fans at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum's "Black Aces" exhibit for an in-depth discussion with two acclaimed authors. Sridhar Pappu discusses his book, "The Year of the Pitcher", chronicling Bob Gibson's historic 1968 season, set "against the backdrop of assassinations, while boys boarded planes to Saigon and riots swept through American cities, forever changing the fabric of this country." Then Luke Epplin sits down for a conversation about his book, "Our Team", "the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby, a soft-spoken, hard-hitting pioneer whose major-league breakthrough shattered stereotypes that so much of white America held about Black ballplayers; Bob Feller, a pitching prodigy from the Iowa cornfields

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E130: Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton on DJ history + Dom Phillips + Elvis: In this episode we welcome dynamic duo Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton to Hammersmith as they prepare for the publication of a newly expanded edition of their mighty Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. Bill and Frank talk about the original mission behind the book, as well as their different routes into dance music. They recall how they met and combined forces in '90s New York, where DJs such as Frankie Knuckles and Junior Vasquez proved transformative figures. Co-host Mark recalls seeing Bill and Frank DJ'ing at Fabric in 2000 and then reading the original edition of Last Night… Recalling their first articles for Mixmag in the '90s, the DJ History duo reminisce about the late Dom Phillips, the magazine's former editor who was so brutally murdered in the Amazon this month. They praise the courage Dom showed in confronting Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and exposing the criminal gangs behind much of the Amazo

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52. No Witness, No Crime Part 1: Part 1 of a 4 part series To look at Skidmore Missouri, you would see what many Americans would see. Kids playing in the front yards, men in their older pickups waving at everyone they pass and folks chatting with with each other as they gather in...

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The weird genius who revolutionized cricket history

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Michael Simmons: Musician and writer Michael Simmons has written dozens of Dylan cover pieces for MOJO magazine, as well as incisive liner notes for Another Self Portrait and Bob Dylan 1970. “I remember where I was when Kennedy was assassinated and I remember the exact moment I heard Like A Rolling Stone. It sounded like freedom.” He praises Bob as both “a revolutionary” and “an evolutionary” artist and reminds us that “the difference between a great talent and a hack is the willingness to fall on their face in the pursuit of something new.” From Michael’s LA home he recounts his time playing guitar, singing backup and doing improvised comedy with the outrageous country jokesters Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys (despite being born in New York City). Mr Simmons contains other multitudes: T-Bone Burnett, Greil Marcus, George Hamilton IV, Gordon Lightfoot, Jerry Garcia and Neil Young all receive considered mentions. He brings it all back home by confirming that “at all times, somebod

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Spike Boarts Stories Part 1

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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion

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Ep. 101 - KINKY FRIEDMAN ("Sold American"): Kinky Friedman reveals who he believes deserves credit for starting country music's outlaw movement; what Waylon Jennings said when he saw Kinky walking down the street with his laundry; how he ended up receiving the Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year Award from the National Organization for Women; the way Nelson Mandela embraced one of his songs; the advice Willie Nelson gave him that changed his life; the reason he writes about Jesus so much; and why he says you've got to be miserable to write great songs.

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Joe Carr (Columbus Panhandles) – The Father of Professional Football: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="https://thefootballhistorydude.com/episode4/" data-lang="en">Tweet</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to explore th

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Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024): An interview with Daniel de Visé

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A Queer American Life: R.K. Russell on being black and bi-sexual in the National Football League: EPISODE 1551: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to R.K. Russell, the author of THE YARDS BETWEEN US, about being black and bi-sexual in the National Football League