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 #170: July 11, 2022

Josh WilkerThis week’s guest is Josh Wilker, author of Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards and a popular website of the same name, where he writes regularly about baseball and other cultural essays. He is also the author of The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood. His writing has appeared at Fox Sports, VICE, The Classical, Baseball Prospectus, ESPN.com, and many other outlets.

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Baseball Complete, by Russ HodgesBaseball Complete
By Russ Hodges

Inside stories of the greatest players of the national game, told by an outstanding sports personality. Russ Hodges was an American broadcaster who did play-by-play for several baseball teams, most notably the New York and San Francisco Giants. On October 3, 1951, Hodges was on the microphone for Bobby Thomson’s famous “Shot Heard ‘Round the World.” It was Hodges who cried, “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!”

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