Hooks & Runs
Hooks & Runs 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 (more or less).
Podcasting since 2020 • 219 episodes
Hooks & Runs
Latest Episodes
267 - The 1971 Astros and the Art of What If w/ Samuel Barrett
Samuel Barrett is author of "Orange Crush: The Neglected 1971 Houston Astros" (Huntsville Independent Press 2025). Barrett examines the series of questionable player deals Houston GM Spec Richardson orchestrated during his tenure and attempts t...
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Season 6
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Episode 267
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53:13
266 - Benny Kauff: "An Apparent Injustice Has Been Done"
Ohio native Benny Kauff made his Major League debut in 1912. He jumped to the Federal League in 1914 where he emerged to stand among that circuit's best hitters. After the Federal League folded, Kauff signed with John McGraw's New York Gi...
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Season 6
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Episode 266
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50:39
265 - "They All Though I Was Crazy Anyway" w/ Scipio Spinks
Scipio Spinks rose from junior college ball in Chicago to the Major Leagues with Houston and St. Louis. He pitched 5 seasons before injuries derailed his promising career. Spinks talks about his pitching in the late 60s and early 70s, the wind ...
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Season 6
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Episode 265
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52:37
264 - Texans in the Hall: Joe Morgan
Joe Morgan, a native of Bonham, Texas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, is generally regarded as baseball's greatest second basemen in the post-World War II era. Originally Colt-.45 then Astro, Houston traded him to Cincinnati after the 1...
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51:12
263 - The Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Gambling Scandal of 1926 w/ Dan Taylor
The fallout from the 1919 World Series gambling scandal rocked the baseball world when the affair broke into the public's view late in the 1920 season. Just when baseball emerged from that threat, two of baseball's biggest stars, Ty Cobb and Tr...
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Season 6
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Episode 263
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45:59