Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Orioles owner John Angelos reneging on his offer to show reporters the team’s financial information, the O’s acquiring Cole Irvin, the Astros hiring the Braves’ Dana Brown as their new GM, and the Twins trading for Michael A. Taylor to be Byron Buxton’s backup, plus more ways in which baseball is different from other sports (27:12), a mini Stat Blast about Jeff Kent’s ability to turn the double play (46:32), and a Past Blast from 1961 (55:58). Then (1:03:55) they bring on Joseph L. Price, professor emeritus at Whittier College, to discuss the past, present, and future of the Baseball Reliquary and the Shrine of the Eternals (a.k.a. “The People’s Hall of Fame”), as well as Whittier’s Institute for Baseball Studies and Price’s prolific National Anthem career.

Audio interstitial: Jeff Buckley, “Eternal Life”

Audio outro: Alasdair Roberts, “Roomful of Relics”

Link to Rays prospects list

Link to Angelos-Connolly exchange

Link to Connolly on the exchange

Link to Connolly on the books

Link to MLBTR on Irvin

Link to Carrie Mathison’s fallow yellow

Link to Dana Brown announcement

Link to MLBTR on Brown

Link to New York Post on Bagwell

Link to Houston Chronicle on Bagwell

Link to Passan on Crane and Click

Link to Ben Clemens on Taylor

Link to CF DRS leaders since 2015

Link to baseball exceptionalism wiki

Link to “The Hockey Song”

Link to “The Hockey Song” wiki

Link to mound visit rules

Link to Ray Ratto on the HoF

Link to Posnanski on Kent

Link to Slusser on Kent

Link to 2B ISO+ leaders

Link to 2B wRC+ leaders

Link to Morosi on Kent

Link to Russell’s Kent stats

Link to Russell on 1B fielding credit

Link to 1961 story source

Link to 1961 Winter Meetings (SABR)

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Past Blast wiki

Link to Hall of Stats

Link to Hall of Stats EW episode

Link to BBTF Hall of Merit

Link to Prof. Price’s Whittier page

Link to Annie Savoy’s monologue

Link to Dalkowski EW episode

Link to Shelton EW episode

Link to Baseball Reliquary website

Link to Baseball Reliquary wiki

Link to Institute for Baseball Studies

Link to NYT on the Reliquary

Link to Daily News on the Reliquary

Link to LAist on the Institute

Link to O.C. Register on the Reliquary

Link to Dock Ellis induction

Link to Nancy Faust wiki

Link to Price’s Rounding the Bases

Link to ESPN on Price’s singing

Link to video on Price’s singing route

Link to Price’s Perfect Pitch

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