Hooks & Runs
This is a podcast about baseball, music and culture. Our podcast includes interviews with news makers in the sports and music world plus commentary from the co-hosts on interesting current and historical events. Hooks & Runs releases a new episodes every Thursday.
Podcasting since 2020 • 172 episodes
Hooks & Runs
Latest Episodes
224 - The Professor's Mysterious Concoction
Craig and Rex contemplate the end of the 2024 baseball season as the Dodgers took the first three World Series games from the Yankees. They then turn their attention to the 1949 film "It Happens Every Spring," starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters ...
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Season 5
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Episode 224
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36:27
223 - Close But No Cigar II: Barry Bonds, 1,996 RBI
Five players in MLB history have driven in 2,000 run in their career. Barry Bonds concluded his amazing 22-year career 4 RBI short of 2,000. This week we examine Bonds' career and try to find out how he came up short.Also this week, Cra...
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Season 5
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Episode 223
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47:30
222 - Rex Trolls Craig's Pre-Season Predictions: "You Might As Well Have Run Over Him With a Truck"
This week Craig and Rex review Craig's sketchy pre-season predictions and ruminate about the on-gong MLB playoffs.Errata: Met closer Edwin Diaz has one year left on his contract, not three.-->Join our Discord: https://discord...
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Season 5
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Episode 222
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38:53
221 - The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies
After beating the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium 3-2 to wrap up a 6-4 road trip, the Phillies cam home leading the National League by 6.5 games with 12 games to play. What followed remains the most dramatic late-season collapse in Major ...
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Season 5
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Episode 221
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54:43
220 - In an Instant It Was All Gone: The Ray Chapman Story w/ Scott H. Longert
Author Scott H. Longert joins the show this week to talk about his latest book, "Love and Loss: The Short Life of Ray Chapman" (Ohio Univ. Press 2024). Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman was hit by a pitched ball in the temple during a ballgame ag...
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Season 5
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Episode 220
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54:45