197 - Bill Veeck, The Second Act w/ Dan Helpingstine

197 - Bill Veeck, The Second Act w/ Dan Helpingstine

Author: A podcast about baseball, music and culture. April 29, 2024 Duration: 53:56
Author Dan Helpingstine has written several books about baseball in Chicago, including, "South Side Hitmen: The Story of the 1977 Chicago White Sox," and "The Cubs and the White Sox: A Baseball Rivalry, 1900 to the Present." Helpingstine is a life-long White Sox fan - his 2023 essay about Bill Veeck's second tenure as the White Sox owner is the subject for this show. Check out our bookshop.org affiliate link below for links to Helpingstine's books In Part 2, Rex and Craig consider the Astro...

You might find yourself wondering how a perfect double play and a classic guitar riff are connected, or what a stadium anthem says about the year it topped the charts. That’s the kind of territory explored on Hooks & Runs. This isn't just a series of interviews, though you’ll hear conversations with fascinating figures from the sports and music industries. It’s also a place for thoughtful commentary, where the co-hosts draw lines between the crack of a bat and a cultural moment, between a legendary concert and a legendary season. They dig into both current headlines and forgotten history, finding the stories where pop culture and the national pastime intersect. Each episode feels like a relaxed, insightful conversation that could start with a baseball statistic and end with a music theory debate. New installments of this podcast arrive roughly every Thursday, offering a consistent dose of their unique blend. If you’ve ever felt that the narratives of baseball and the rhythms of music speak a similar language, this podcast provides the commentary to translate.
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235 - Texans in the Hall: Ross Youngs w/ David King [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:45
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234 - The Miracle Braves of 1914, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:19
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233 - The Miracle Braves of 1914, Part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:11
This week Craig and Rex begin a two-part series on the Miracle Braves of 1914. The early 20th Century was not kind to the Boston Braves (previously, the Beaneaters, the Doves and the Rustlers). Mired in the second divisi…
106 - Baseball Rebels w/ Professor Peter Dreier (From the Vault) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:47
Rex and I are taking two weeks to recover from the holidays and holiday travel and will be back January 16 with the first episode of Season Six. Here are the show notes from our Episode 106: -----------------------------…
231 - The 2024 Hooks & Runs Year End Music Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:58
Craig & Rex review their favorite albums of 2024 while Craig mourns Kyle Tucker being traded by Houston to the Cubs. Errata: The MJ Lenderman lyric on "Wristwatch" is " a wristwatch that tells me I'm on my own," not "I'm…
230 - Lou Gehrig Goes to Hollywood [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:35
This week Craig and Rex look at Lou Gehrig's lone Hollywood film, "Rawhide" (1938), filmed in January 1938. The film stars Gehrig (playing himself) and Texas native Smith Ballew (Palestine), Hollywood's first singing cow…
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Duration: 26:47
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