Effectively Wild Episode 1876: Overbooked

With Meg Rowley on the road, Ben Lindbergh does an almost-all-interview episode featuring the authors of four new baseball books: First (3:22), Howard Bryant on Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original; second (42:45), Jeff Fletcher on Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played; third (1:19:36), Mark Armour and Daniel Levitt on Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating; and fourth (1:58:38), Paul Oyer on An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights From the Economics of Sports, followed (2:32:42) by a Past Blast from 1876. Audio intro: Drive-By Truckers, “Dancin’ Ricky” Audio interstitial 1: Sir Douglas Quintet, “Revolutionary Ways” Audio interstitial 2: Franz Ferdinand, “Cheating on You” Audio interstitial 3: Dan Bern, “Economy” Audio interstitial 4: Feist, “Past in Present” Audio outro: Kelley Stoltz, “Read it in Books” Link to Rickey Link to Howard’s website Link to Sho-Time Link to Jeff’s website Link to Ohtani’s Garcia impression Link to Ohtani’s bat CPR Link to Ben on Ohtani’s origin story Link to Intentional Balk Link to Mark’s website Link to Daniel’s website Link to EW sign-stealing episode Link to Ben on overrated cheating Link to An Economist Goes to the Game Link to Paul’s website Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four Link to vaccination story source Link to 1876 story source Link to Facebook post about the EW wiki Link to “How to Help” wiki page  Sponsor Us on Patreon Subscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20)  Facebook Group  Twitter Account  EW Subreddit  Effectively Wild Wiki  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source