• Episode 21: Baseball Writing

  • Oct 19 2020
  • Length: 49 mins
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Episode 21: Baseball Writing

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  • This week, get your peanuts and Cracker Jack ready because we’re chatting with essayist Joe Bonomo and sportswriter Rick Telander about their favorite baseball writing. This program took place and was recorded in June when Major League Baseball was still on hiatus. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS "Baseball especially encourages that, that feeling of connection to other games you’ve been to. And I think that engages imagination and engages memory and it maybe engages, for certain writers, a literary impulse to explore the game in its slowness, its kind of slow-baked quality. Which is what we love about the game.” “What I like most in baseball writing is a skepticism, a resistance to writing about baseball as this maudlin, sort of grand ole game that is America’s pastime. It is, of course, but it’s also full of scoundrels and fascinating people and a lot of coarse humor.” “As a sportswriter you have fandom kind of beaten out of you on
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