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Adam Lazarus (https://www.adamlazarusbooks.com/) joins the show this week to discuss his wonderful new book, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023). This is a fast-paced discussion starting with Glenn and Williams in battle as fighter pilots during the Korean Conflict through the space program, Williams' legendary post-conflict career in Boston, Glenn's long political live and more. Lazarus offers powerful insight into the nature and power of friendship and how friendship can grow and endure despite differences.

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Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)   
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Katie S. Sanders (www.katiessanders.com) is a freelancer based in New York City who writes about innovation, history, and fascinating people/things overlooked by history and media. She joined this podcast this week to discuss the enigmatic and mysterious Moe Berg, a long-time back-up catcher for five Major League teams in the 20s and 30s who later earned a Medal of Honor for his spy efforts for the Office of Strategic Services  during World War II. Sanders, who

The documentary, "The Catcher  Was A Spy," directed by Aviva Kempner: https://spybehindhomeplate.org/
The Ben Lewin directed motion picture "The Spy Behind Home Plate," starring Paul Rudd and Sienna Miller.
The Nicholas Dawidoff book, "The Spy Behind Home Plate" is available at our Bookshop.org link below.
Katie Sanders' article, "How Moe Berg went from playing for 5 MLB teams to being a US spy in WWII who thwarted Nazi efforts to build a nuclear bomb."
Katie Sanders' article discussed in the episode on the spy Pierre Julien Ortiz.

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Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)  
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Gabey Lewis is a Seattle based writer, editor and stand up comic who contributes to UW Dawg Pound, a Washington Huskies football blog on SB Nation. She joins us this week to discuss the Pac-12's implosion, the aftermath and the outlook for the 2023 college football season.

Gabey Lucas on Instagram
Gabey Lucas on Substack (The Everett Flabbergasters)
Gabey Lucas on Twitter
Go see Gabey Lucas at the Hell Yes Festival in New Orleans, Nov. 15-20, 2023.]

Errata: Alabama played at Texas in 2022 - this year's game in at Alabama. Texas A&M's coach before Mike Sherman was Dennis Franchione.

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Doug Rau pitched 9 seasons in the Major Leagues compiling an 81-60 record with a 3.35 ERA. He was a starter for the Los Angeles through their 1970s heyday, playing for managers Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda and with great Dodger players like Steve Garvey, Dusty Baker, Rick Monday and many, many more. In this episode Rau reflects on growing up  in rural Texas west of Houston, achieving All-American status at Texas A&M, and spending the 1970s, or most of those years, in the Dodger rotation.

Episodes Referenced:
133 - We Weren't Rained Out, We Were Rained In w/ Roger Metzger.
149 - You Gotta Be Smart to Play This Game w/ Bill Bonham

Errata: Dick Allen hit 3 home runs off Doug Rau during Rau's  career, not 4.

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Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)  
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J. Daniel is our guest this week to talk about his new book "Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars and the Summer of '82." The Book is a comprehensive look at baseball and the larger culture in the season following the sport's first major labor conflict and its 1981 split season disaster. Daniel weaves the season's developments with pop culture references and the high-stakes battles between Budweiser and the Cardinals against Miller and the Brewers for both baseball and beer supremacy.

In part two, Andrew and Craig comment on the Pac-12's implosion and the exciting pennant race brewing in the National League Central.

J. Daniel's website is 80sbaseball.com.  He is on Twitter (X) @jdaniel2033, and on Facebook at 80sbaseball

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Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)   
Disclosure: The University of Missouri Press provided Hooks & Runs with a pre-publication copy of "Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars and the Summer of '82.
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In this week's episode, Andrew, Craig and Rex discuss Colorado's sudden decision to bolt to the Big 12, some early trade deadline musings, Bartolo Colon's retirement announcement almost 5 years since his last Major League appearance and bands we would like to see come out of retirement.

Episodes Mentioned;
152 - R.E.M.'s Murmur at 40 w/ Tony Fletcher

Errata: The New York Yankees were 14 games behind the Boston Red Sox on July 17, 1978, but rallied to win the division in a one-game playoff. Red Sox pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee discussed that season in our Episode 45A - Shavermetrics w/ Scott Russell and Bill "Spaceman" Lee (Radio Edit).  Allen Collins, not Albert Collins, played guitar for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Following Gary Rossington's death, Artimus Pyle is the only surviving band member from before the plane crash.

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Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)   
Disclosure: The University of Texas Press provided Hooks & Runs with a pre-publication copy of "Quantum Criminals."   
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This week, Professor Michael T. Friedman (Univ. of Maryland) is our guest to discuss his book "Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption" (Cornell Univ. Press 2023).  We analyzed the future of baseball stadiums by looking at the past, from Union Grounds in the 1860's to Fenway Park (1912), Dodger Stadium (1960), Camden Yards (1993) to the newest parks & developments proposed for Las Vegas and Tampa/St. Petersburg.

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 With less than two weeks to go until the 2023 trade deadline, the question on everyone's mind is -- what will the Angels do with Shohei Ohtani? Andrew and Craig weigh in an also look at whether the Astros should deal from their bare farm system for pitching help. Also in this rare music-free episode, more on the All-Star game, plus what's the deal with old people gatekeeping who gets to wear classic rock band t-shirts?

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With summer vacation travels upon us, this week's episode mixes a little old with a little new. In part 1, our 2020 interview with Bill Rogan, author of "Life Ain’t the Same in the Pecos League: A Rookie Manager Navigates Baseball’s Most Notorious Independent League." Bill wrote the book about his 2019 season at the helm for the  Tucson Saguaros  in the independent Pecos League.  This interview was a blast to do and if you missed it in 2020, here is your chance to catch it.

In part 2, our recent interview with Erik McLaren, a writer and host of Religious Wars,  a podcast that looks at history through a lens of conflicts in faith. Erik joins us to discuss his thoughts on how religious themes, ideas and images are presented in Western popular music.  The conversation includes Elvis Presley, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Joan Osborne and many more artists. We examined how different artists incorporate religious and spiritual themes into their music. Thank you to Erik for sharing his time with Hooks & Runs.

Chapters:
2:00  Bill Rogan: Life Ain't the Same in the Pecos League
29:29  Erik McLaren, Spiritual Themes in Popular Music 

Bill Rogan, Life Ain't the Same in the Pecos League
Erik McLaren: Religious Wars Podcast (https://www.religiouswarspodcast.com/)

Errata: Bob Dylan won a Grammy Award in 1980 for the song "Gotta Serve Somebody" (Best Rock Performance, Male), not "Slow Train."

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Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)    
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This week the Hooks & Runs, giddy from Houston's thrilling 12-11 win over Texas Monday afternoon, examine the complaints and criticisms against Dusty Baker. Is it possible that after owning the American League West lock, stock and barrel since 2017 Astro fans have become spoiled by success? Texas is not going to give this race away -- Houston will have to earn it, there will be bumps along the way, and Dusty Baker will forever be Dusty Baker and all that entails.

Hooks & Runs best of second quarter, 2022.
Rex: Tygers of Pan Tang, "Bloodlines." HM:  Metallica, "72 Seasons," Overkill, "Scorched," Metal Church, "Congregation of Annihilation."
Andrew: Noah Kahan, "Stick Season," actually released in mid-2022, which makes us wonder about Andrew's calendaring skills.
Craig: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, 'Weathervanes"

Previous Episodes Mentioned
150 - The RRHoF Episode: We Can't Have Too Many Rock Bands

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Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)   
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