Tag: Covid-19

2021 Baseball is Here! Plus, Remembering “The Hammer” and Surviving the 2020 Season (2/19/21) – Podcast

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Running the Bases is back for the 2021 season! Out of the box, Coach and Tucker look forward to (hopefully) a full summer of Baseball (1:30), specifically what changes to expect moving forward. In “1st to 3rd”, Coach gives His proper tribute to the colossal Henry Aaron, as someone who witnessed Aaron first hand from Day One in Atlanta (20:26). From Home Run 715, all the way to his final game at Fulton County Stadium, we remember a legend so great that he had three different nicknames. Coming into home, Coach and Tucker reflect on the surreal 2020 season that was- The 60-game sprint, ever-changing Covid protocols, and where baseball fit amid the strife and chaos within the United States (47:36).

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Baseball in Limbo, Goodbye Mr. Tiger (4/28/20) – Podcast

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Tucker is joined by Coach via phone for the first Coronavirus podcast for RTB. Out of the Box, Coach and Tucker discuss MLB’s different strategies to try and have a 2020 baseball season (3:12). The CPBL in Taiwan offers a baseball fix to the masses with a bizarre new approach (20:26), what permanent changes to MLB will result from COVID-19 (42:12), and what gets lost in a lost season (51:23). Coming into Home, remembering the great Al Kaline, “Mr Tiger” and one of the great elder statesmen of baseball (54:58).

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“The Natural” – RTB Book Club Ep. 1 (3/31/20) – Podcast

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Originally recorded in 2018, Tucker and Coach are joined by author Clayton Trutor to discuss Bernard Malamud’s seminal baseball work, “The Natural” (2:45). Written in 1949, Malamud had no prior knowledge of baseball history. He crafts the character of Roy Hobbs to be the “Great American Monomyth” (5:05). Filled with lush poetic imagery (Wonderboy and the Wasteland), Malamud weaves the Vegetative myth, Arthurian Legend and the mode of Joseph Campbell’s “Hero with a Thousand Faces”, to pen the standard for baseball fiction (15:00). From the book came the beloved 1984 film starring Robert Redford, featuring an A-List cast, Oscar-winning cinematography, and Randy Newman’s iconic score. However, the ending is pure Hollywood and a far cry from the book (50:00).

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