Hooks & Runs

By: A podcast about baseball music and culture.
  • Summary

  • This 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.
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Episodes
  • 227 - Gavy Cravath: The Deadball Era's Home Run King w/ Rick Reiff
    Nov 22 2024

    Rick Reiff is our guest this week to discuss his essay in the Fall 2024 Baseball Research Journal, "Gavy Cravath's Hall-Worthy 200 Home Runs." Cravath, a late arrival, played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues and led the National League in home runs in six of those seasons, from 1913 to 1919. Cravath also led the Senior Circuit in RBI twice, in on base percentage twice and slugging percentage three times. Despite being the preeminent home run hitter in the Deadball Era, Cravath remains on the outside looking in for Hall of Fame induction. Reiff makes the case to remedy this.

    In part 2, Craig and Rex talk about the Rays playing their 2025 regular season at the Yankees' spring training home, the latest billion-dollar boondoggle to return the Houston Astrodome, an aging eyesore, to usefulness and how to turn a juice box to an ice box.

    Errata: Craig, its the Donner Party, not the Bonner Party.

    You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns

    Hooks & Runs - www.hooksandruns.com
    Email: hooksandruns@protonmail.com
    Hooks & Runs on Twitter
    Craig at 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, 2024.


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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 226 - Baseball's Most Unusual Feats
    Nov 18 2024

    This episode was recorded on November 5.

    Craig and Rex analyze some of baseball's rarest achievements, ranging from Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no-hitters, Fernando Tatis belting two grand slams in the same inning off the same pitcher. Of course we mention Guy Hecker's 7 runs scored in a 9 innings game, a singular feat that has stood for 138 years.

    Also this episode, Gerrit Cole's $144 million dance with free agency after the World Series came to an end plus the Hall of Fame's Classic Era Committee's nominees.

    You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns

    Hooks & Runs - www.hooksandruns.com
    Email: hooksandruns@protonmail.com
    Hooks & Runs on Twitter
    Craig at 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, 2024.

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    40 mins
  • 225 - Heroes, Villains and Fools: Baseball and Theater in the Deadball Era w/ Travis Stern
    Nov 15 2024

    Dr. Travis Stern's new book, "Ballplayers on Stage: Baseball, Melodrama, and Theatrical Celebrity in the Deadball Era" (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2024) explores the relationship between professional baseball and professional theater in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Stern joins us in this episode to talk about his book and the how baseball and the theater contributed to the rise of the American culture, culminating with Babe Ruth's emergence as a national hero in the early 1920s.

    Stern is an Associate Professor of Theater Arts at Bradley University.

    Travis Stern on Bluesky (@travisstern.bsky.social)
    Travis Stern at Bradley University

    In Part Two, Craig went to a Duster show and talks about Duster, the show and the unusual opening act, Dirty Art Club.

    Errata: At one point Stern mentions seeing the "Yankees and Mets." We believe he meant to say "Yankees and Dodgers" as the Mets were not a team in the Deadball Era.

    Episodes mentioned or discussed:
    205 - Baseball at War: Working and Playing Ball in the Bethlehem Steel League w/ William Ecenbarger (https://tinyurl.com/hooks2051114)
    82 - Rube Waddell Would Make A Hell of a Movie w/ Prof. Alan H. Levy (https://tinyurl.com/Hooks821114)

    You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns

    Hooks & Runs - www.hooksandruns.com
    Email: hooksandruns@protonmail.com
    Hooks & Runs on Twitter
    Craig at 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, 2024.


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    37 mins

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