Rick Wise pitched 18 seasons in the big league, beginning with is rookie year for the 1964 Philadelphia Phillies. He won 188 games in that span and achieved some notable milestones, including becoming the only pitcher in Major League history to pitch a no-hitter and hit 2 home runs in the same game. Wise was also the winning pitcher in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series - considered by many to be among the greatest World Series games ever played.

Rick joins Hooks & Runs this week to reflect on his long baseball career.

Errata - Rick allowed runs at old Sportsman's Park in 1964, but he did not allow any earned runs. The first night game in MLB history was in Houston in 1963, not 1962. Bernie Carbo and Dwight Evans hit home runs in Game 3 of the '75 World Series, not Game 6.

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Colorado of all teams highlights the week with a wild come-from-behind win at home against Pittsburgh. Hooks & Runs' favorite teams made big splashes at the trade deadline. MLB's microbets investigation snares Cleveland All-Star pitcher Emmanuel Clase - lockers have been cleared out, so this looks serious.

Where are they now? Hooks & Runs follows up on the players suspended in last year's gambling scandal. The TV Dolls, Loose Helmet, Ozzy's funeral and "I've Got the Music in Me" closes.

Errata: It's Leo De Vries, not Luis. We're sure there are others.

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Bo Carter is the Executive Director for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and an inductee into the College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame. He was media relations director for the Southwest Conference (SWC) and Big 12 Conference for a combined 22 years. His essay, "Southwest Conference Baseball HIstory," was appears in The National Pastime: Baseball in Texas and Beyond (Society of American Baseball Research (SABR), 2005). Carter has been a SABR member since 1993.

Bo Carter on SABR - https://sabr.org/authors/bo-carter/
"Southwest Conference Baseball History" - https://sabr.org/journal/article/southwest-conference-baseball-history/
National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association - https://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/

Errata: On further review, Southwestern's Curt Walker was not the first former SWC player to reach the majors, though he was the first to enjoy a substantial MLB career. Maybe that's for another episode?

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Topics this week: Tampa Bay Rays sale; A Shoeless Joe's Hall of Fame promotion; The All-Star Game; The USA vs. The World; Late Night TV is in trouble; BananaBall may entertain some, but it isn't baseball; Manfred wants a salary cap; MLB's tickets are overpriced for a reason; an Ozzy Osbourne post-mortum; making money while making music.

Errata: A Houston business consortium was bidding to buy the St. Louis Cardinals in the early 1950's, not the St. Louis Browns. The National League, not the American League had the early 6-run lead in the 2025 All-Star game.

Episodes Mentioned: Ep. 251, "Talking Talking Heads w/ Jonathan Gould."

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Frank Robinson was born in Beaumont, Texas, raised in Oakland, California, and established himself among baseball's most feared hitter and fierest competitors for over a decade. Robinson had over 2,900 hits, hit 586 home runs and drove in over 1,800 runs over 21 big league seasons that included two part-time years as Cleveland's player-manager. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.

Links: Frank Robinson's career stats at Retrosheet: https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/R/Probif103.htm. George Brett's pine-tar incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEHAsZxRYo.

Sources: Sources for this episode include and among others, Lou Smith, "Reds Trade Off Frank Robinson," The Cincinnati Enquirer, December 10, 1965; Paul Ritter, "Fan Opinion Varies on Robby's Trade, The Cincinnati Enquirer, December 10, 1965; Maxwell Kates, "Frank Robinson," https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Frank-Robinson/, and available sources cited there; Stats and box scores at Baseball Reference and Retrosheet.

Errata: Joe Adcock's last season in Milwaukee was 1962. Eddie Mathews hit 32 home runs for the Braves in 1965. Henry Aaron hit the same.

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This week on the show, baseball's microbets scandal, another Topps pack - this time from 1986 - and Ozzy's "farewell" concert.

See the two Luis Ortiz pitches in question here: Cody Williams, "These are the two pitches that got Luis Ortiz investigated for gambling by MLB," July 3, 2025, Fansided.com (accessed July 9, 2025). https://tinyurl.com/hooks253

Errata: Whitey Herzog was not the Royal's manager in 1983's Pine Tar Game. The team's manager was Dick Howser. Len Dykstra never played for the Red Sox. He was a Met, then a Phillie. Fernando Valenzuela pitched his only career no-hitter in his final season with the Dodgers. Dwight Evans played one season for Baltimore.

Not an errata, but Len Dykstra suffered a stroke in early 2025 - Hooks & Runs hopes his troubles are behind him and that his recovery is quick and complete.

Past Episodes Referenced
154 - Fernandomania Revisited w/ Erik Sherman
https://www.buzzsprout.com/875794/episodes/12920115
165 -Suds Series Stories w/ J. Daniel
https://www.buzzsprout.com/875794/episodes/13382724

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Film critic Cassandra Hager (Cinefied) joins us this week to reflect on "Jaws," released 50 years ago last month.

Cassandra Hager on Cinefied - https://www.cinefied.com/cassandrahager

Cassandra Hager on Twitter - https://x.com/TheMovieMermaid

Cassangra Hager All Links - https://cassandrahager.carrd.co/

Errata - "Airplane '74" and "Airplane '77"were actually "Airport '75" and "Airport '77." Jacqueline Bisset was in "The Deep," not "Jaws: The Revenge;" something for which I'm sure she's quite grateful.

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Jonathan Gould's latest book is "Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock" (Meridian Books 2025). Gould has previously written books about The Beatles and Otis Redding -- his shorter works appear in The New Yorker. Gould is a New York City native; he attended ballgames at The Polo Grounds as a child and is a Mets fan.

Jonathan Gould's Website - https://www.jonathangouldauthor.com/

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