Thomas Bunting - What Can Baseball Tell Us About Politics?

About this episode

Alex speaks with Thomas Bunting about the connections between baseball and various political themes.

In this episode from 2022, Alex speaks with Thomas Bunting about politics, democracy, social progress and more as they relate to baseball and athletics more broadly.

People in this episode

Host: Alex

Guest: Thomas Bunting

Topics covered

• politics
• democracy
• social progress
• baseball
• athletics

Keywords

• baseball
• politics
• democracy
• social progress
• athletics

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: baseball, athletics

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