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Episode 335: "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years"

Episode 335: "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years"

Update: 2023-11-22

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Author Steve Gietschier joins us to discuss his new book chronicling baseball history from the 1930s to the 1950s. We discuss how MLB survived the Depression, the rise of the radio, World War II, the end of the color barrier and arrival of big league baseball in California.

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Episode 335: "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years"

Episode 335: "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years"

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Episode 334: "Why We Love Baseball"

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Episode 333: "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History"

Episode 333: "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History"

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Episode 332: "Tales from the Dugout"

Episode 332: "Tales from the Dugout"

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Episode 331: "Suds Series"

Episode 331: "Suds Series"

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Episode 330: "Welcome to the Circus of Baseball"

Episode 330: "Welcome to the Circus of Baseball"

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Episode 329: "Major League Baseball Players of the 1970s"

Episode 329: "Major League Baseball Players of the 1970s"

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Episode 328: "Baseball's Brief Lives"

Episode 328: "Baseball's Brief Lives"

2022-10-0345:39

Episode 327: "Beauty at Short"

Episode 327: "Beauty at Short"

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Episode 326: "Stumbling Around the Bases"

Episode 326: "Stumbling Around the Bases"

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Episode 325: "Intentional Balk"

Episode 325: "Intentional Balk"

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Episode 324: "Stolen Dreams"

Episode 324: "Stolen Dreams"

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Episode 323: "Not an Easy Tale to Tell"

Episode 323: "Not an Easy Tale to Tell"

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Episode 322: "Whispers of the Gods"

Episode 322: "Whispers of the Gods"

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Episode 321: "Red Barber"

Episode 321: "Red Barber"

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From the Patreon archives: "Baseball's Great Experiment"

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Episode 320: "Charlie Murphy"

Episode 320: "Charlie Murphy"

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Episode 319: "Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball"

Episode 319: "Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball"

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Episode 318: "Max Gordon"

Episode 318: "Max Gordon"

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Episode 317: "The Baseball 100"

Episode 317: "The Baseball 100"

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Episode 335: "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years"

Episode 335: "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years"