SABRcast with Rob Neyer

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast features insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game — and music from The Baseball Project.

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Neyer is a longtime baseball writer and editor for ESPN.com, SB Nation, and FoxSports.com. He began his career as a research assistant for groundbreaking baseball author Bill James and later worked for STATS, Inc. He has also written or co-written seven baseball books, including The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (with Bill James), winner of the Sporting News/SABR Baseball Research Award, and most recently Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game, winner of the 2019 CASEY Award.

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Episode #110: May 10, 2021

Will Leitch (AUTHOR PHOTO)This week’s guest is Will Leitch, author of How Lucky: A Novel and four other books. He writes This Here Newsletter on Substack and he is a contributing editor at New York magazine. He also writes weekly for Intelligencer and Vulture, along with regular columns for NBC News, the New York Times, Washington Post, Medium, and MLB.com. He is best known as the founder of the late sports website Deadspin.

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What’s Rob Reading?

Double Plays and Double Crosses, by Don ZmindaDouble Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920
By Don Zminda

The Black Sox Scandal has fascinated sports fans for over one hundred years. But while the focus has traditionally been on the fixed 1919 World Series, the reality is that it continued well into the following season-and members of the Chicago White Sox very likely continued to fix games. The result was a year of suspicion, intrigue, and continued betrayal.

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