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 • 175 episodes
Hooks & Runs
Latest Episodes
227 - Gavy Cravath: The Deadball Era's Home Run King w/ Rick Reiff
Rick Reiff is our guest this week to discuss his essay in the Fall 2024 Baseball Research Journal, "Gavy Cravath's Hall-Worthy 200 Home Runs." Cravath, a late arrival, played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues and led the National League in ...
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Season 5
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Episode 227
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1:02:49
226 - Baseball's Most Unusual Feats
This episode was recorded on November 5.Craig and Rex analyze some of baseball's rarest achievements, ranging from Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no-hitters, Fernando Tatis belting two grand slams in the same inning off the same pitc...
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Season 2
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Episode 226
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39:30
225 - Heroes, Villains and Fools: Baseball and Theater in the Deadball Era w/ Travis Stern
Dr. Travis Stern's new book, "Ballplayers on Stage: Baseball, Melodrama, and Theatrical Celebrity in the Deadball Era" (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2024) explores the relationship betw...
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Season 5
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Episode 225
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37:01
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