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Episode #90: Tim Wendel

Tim Wendel (“Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball–and America–Forever”) joins the show. We discuss the 1968 baseball season, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Denny McLain antics, and the World Baseball Classic. Show Notes: Summer of ’68 can

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Episode #78: Rob Elias

Rob Elias (University of San Francisco professor and author of “The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad”) joins the show. We discuss baseball’s impact on the world, its close ties to the

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