Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s spectator expertise on the All-Star Game, whether or not it’s good or dangerous that the MVP was a participant as obscure as Elias Díaz, the rise within the variety of All-Stars per season, different All-Star highlights and lowlights, complaints about All-Star uniforms, perennial requests for a expertise competitors, Rob Manfred’s and Tony Clark’s feedback about extra lenient pitch clocks within the postseason and the ball-strike problem system, extra particulars concerning the Alabama baseball betting scandal, and extra, plus a Future Blast from 2032. Then (59:10) they discuss to Byron Motley, producer of the brand new Negro Leagues documentary The League, concerning the lengthy street to creating the film, the latest enhance in appreciation of the Negro Leagues, his father’s life and profession as a Negro Leagues umpire, the problem of discovering archival footage of Negro Leagues video games, assembly and interviewing former Negro Leagues stars, the Negro Leagues as a microcosm of Twentieth-century American historical past, the affect of Rube Foster, the movie’s portrayal of Branch Rickey’s position in integration, and the legacy of the Negro Leagues.

Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild theme”Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild theme”

Link to Ringer ASG recapLink to Díaz dingerLink to Jordan on DíazLink to variety of All-Stars per recreationLink to Gurriel foulLink to Clark feedbackLink to Manfred feedbackLink to information on declining violationsLink to Manfred re-election articleLink to Rick Wilber’s web siteLink to playing scandal articleLink to The League web siteLink to Byron’s web siteLink to the Motleys’ e bookLink to NPR on Bob MotleyLink to NPR on The LeagueLink to The Athletic on The LeagueLink to EW episode on EffaLink to Craig Wright on SB variationsLink to Wright on Paige’s drawing energyLink to Bananas catchLink to EW Episode 1426Link to Berkman’s profession splitsLink to Stathead on switch-hitter splitsLink to Berkman’s switch-hitting originsLink to 2003 article about BerkmanLink to Albies on switch-hitting

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