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Hooks & Runs

Hooks & Runs

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Hooks & Runs is a podcast about baseball, music and culture. Our podcast includes interviews with news makers in the sports and music world plus commentary from the co-hosts on interesting current and historical events. Hooks & Runs releases a new episodes every Thursday (more or less).

© 2025 Craig Estlinbaum
Baseball & Softball Music Social Sciences
Episodes
  • 252 - Jaws at 50 w/ Cassandra Hager
    Jul 4 2025

    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.

    You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books, including those featured in this episode (if any were), through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link.
    https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns

    Hooks & Runs - https://hooksandruns.buzzsprout.com
    Email: hooksandruns@protonmail.com
    Craig on Bluesky (@craigest.bsky.social)
    Rex (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/
    Hosts Emeriti:
    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
    Eric on Facebook
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (via Premium Beat)
    This podcast and this episode are copyright Craig Estlinbaum, 2025.

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    53 mins
  • 251 - Talking Talking Heads w/ Jonathan Gould
    Jun 26 2025

    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/

    You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books, including those featured in this episode (if any were), through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link.
    https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns

    Hooks & Runs - https://hooksandruns.buzzsprout.com
    Email: hooksandruns@protonmail.com
    Craig on Bluesky (@craigest.bsky.social)
    Rex (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/
    Hosts Emeriti:
    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
    Eric on Facebook
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (via Premium Beat)
    This podcast and this episode are copyright Craig Estlinbaum, 2025.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 250 - The Clout or an Out Club
    Jun 19 2025

    Three players in big league history have more than one career home run but no other hits. Two were players that got only a cup of coffee or two in the big leagues; the third, believe it or not, was a pitcher. We have their stories. Plus - the Rafael Devers trade, reflecting on Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, and some 1989 baseball cards.

    Errata: Nolan Fontana was claimed off waivers by the Angels, not the Dodgers. Andy van Slyke won 5 Gold Glove Awards, not 3. Houston replaced Bill Virdon with Bob Lillis in 1982, not Hal Lanier. On June 28, 1997, David Wells wore Babe Ruth's cap, valued then at $35,000, for one inning during a pitching performance - the Yankees fined Wells $2,500. In September 1988, Dave Dravecky was diagnosed with a desmoid tumor in his left arm. He attempted a return in 1989. In his second appearance during a pitch in the fifth inning his humerus bone snapped. Doctors amputated his left arm in 1991 after discovering the tumor had returned.

    Episodes mentioned:
    Ep. 72 - Seeing the World Through Baseball w/ Cousin Wolf (Matt Halvorson). Wolf's album, "Nine Innings," is available here (https://cousinwolf.bandcamp.com/album/nine-innings).

    You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books, including books featured in this episode (if any were), through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link.
    https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns

    Hooks & Runs - https://hooksandruns.buzzsprout.com/
    Email: hooksandruns@protonmail.com
    Craig on Bluesky (@craigest.bsky.social)
    Rex (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/
    Hosts Emeriti:
    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
    Eric on Facebook
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (via Premium Beat)
    This podcast and this episode are copyright Craig Estlinbaum, 2025.

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    55 mins
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