6/8/26. "The First All-Star Game" / "The Arm"

About this episode

The episode features discussions with authors Randall Sullivan and Jeff Passan about their respective works on baseball history and sports economics.

Part One: Randall Sullivan, author of "The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR, and America at the Crossroads." Part Two: from 2017- Jeff Passan, author of "The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports."

People in this episode

Host: Greg Berg

Guests: Randall Sullivan, Jeff Passan

Topics covered

• sports history
• baseball
• biographies
• American culture
• sports economics

Keywords

• All-Star Game
• Babe Ruth
• FDR
• sports
• Jeff Passan
• Randall Sullivan
• The Arm
• The First All-Star Game

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR, and America at the Crossroads, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

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