197 - Bill Veeck, The Second Act w/ Dan Helpingstine

Author Dan Helpingstine has written several books about baseball in Chicago, including, "South Side Hitmen: The Story of the 1977 Chicago White Sox," and "The Cubs and the White Sox: A Baseball Rivalry, 1900 to the Present." Helpingstine is a life-long White Sox fan - his 2023 essay about Bill Veeck's second tenure as the White Sox owner is the subject for this show.

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In Part 2, Rex and Craig consider the Astros' plight, examine a challenge facing the WNBA stemming from a Caitlin Clark interview gone horribly wrong (we removed the reporter's name as he's milked this for enough clicks, but IYKYK), remember the last Boy of Summer, pitcher Carl Erskine, who died last week at age 97, and review the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions.

Dan Helpingstine's website is here (https://danhelpingstine.com/).
Helpinstine's essay in SABR's The National Pastime Journal is here (https://tinyurl.com/veeck042824).

Selected sources:
"Dave Portnoy blasts ‘pervert’ Indy Star columnist Gregg Doyel for creepy Caitlin Clark exchange," by  Andrew Battifarano, New York Post, April 17, 2024.
"Columnist's awkward exchange with Caitlin Clark gets creepier as second comment surfaces," by Scott Thompson, .foxnews.com, April 18, 2024.

Episodes mentioned:
196 - If You're Going to Let Foreigner in You Might as Well Let Them All In
191 - Hound Dog: The Song that Changed Popular Music and America w/ Ben Wynne 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introducing Dan Helpingstine
• 5:06 Bill Veeck Returns to Chicago's South Side
• 9:27 The Paul Richards Experience and the Birth of Rent-A-Player & the South Side Hitmen
• 18:34 The Cubs and the White Sox
• 23:02 Disco Demolition Night and the End of the Second Act
• 32:17 On JFK and wrapping up the interview
• 38:18 Astro Woes, WNBA's New Challenge
• 44:13 Carl Erskine, Stephen Strasberg and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees