Podcast Episodes
Back to Search301 - Celebrity Deaths, Kyle Tucker, George van Haltren, MTV Ridiculousness, and Baseball Cards
Season 7 Episode 301
It's all in the title.
Errata: This episode is late arriving - since recording and through September 5, Baez is 13-74 (.176) with 4 home runs and 27 s…
17 hours ago
300 - Take This Job and Shove It.
Season 7 Episode 300
Craig and Rex take on the big issues of the day for episode number 300 - Joshua Baez's historic debut, Ritchie Blackmore's return to Deep Purple (for…
1 week, 6 days ago
299 - The Al Rosen Phenomenon: That One Glorious Season (or Two)
Season 7 Episode 299
This week Craig and Rex take a look at players that led their league in home runs after 1920 but hit less than 200 career home runs. The list include…
3 weeks ago
298 - Texans in the Hall: Louis Santop and Biz Mackey w/ Thomas Kern
Season 7 Episode 298
This week we resume our series Texans in the Hall by looking at the lives and careers of two great Texan ballplayers - Louis Santop and Biz Mackey. S…
4 weeks ago
297 - Baseball on the South Side After the Black Sox, 1920-26 w/ Bruce S. Allardice
Season 7 Episode 297
Bruce S. Allardice joins us this week to discuss the Chicago White Sox in the years immediately after the Black Sox scandal that tainted the 1919 Wor…
1 month ago
296 - The 9-Online Virtual Baseball Conference w/ Willie Steele plus We Don't Like AI Music
Season 7 Episode 296
Professor Willie Steele (Lipscomb) joins us this week to discuss the forthcoming 9-Online Virtual Baseball Conference. Steele is a conference co-dire…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
295 - Baseball Back in the Day w/ John Ferling
Season 7 Episode 295
Professor John Ferling (University of West Georgia) joins the podcast this week to talk about his new book, Baseball As It Was: Building Champions Be…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
294 - Castle Rat, Truth About Ruth, Portland vs SLC, and Remembering LaSalle's Vacay to our County
Season 7 Episode 294
This week on Hooks & Runs, the theatrical doom metal quartet Castle Rat gets a major article in Spin, Craig wanders into more Astro sign stealing con…
2 months ago
293 - Chicago, 1933: A Look at MLB's First All-Star Game w/ Randall Sullivan
Season 7 Episode 293
Randall Sullivan, former contributing editor to Rolling Stone and author of The Price of Experience, and Untouchable, joins Hooks & Runs this week to…
2 months, 1 week ago
292 - College Sports is Looking a Lot Like 19th Century Baseball w/ John A. Fortunato
Season 7 Episode 292
Between players jumping contracts and entangling themselves in gambling scandals; the lack of a clear, consistent enforcement authority and conferenc…
2 months, 2 weeks ago