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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.

Hooks & Runs A podcast about baseball, music and culture.

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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.

    191 - Hound Dog: The Song that Changed Popular Music and America w/ Ben Wynne

    191 - Hound Dog: The Song that Changed Popular Music and America w/ Ben Wynne

    Dr. Ben Wynne, Ph.D. (Univ. of N. Georgia) is our guest this week to talk about his latest book, "A Hound Dog Tale: Big Mama, Elvis and the Song that Changed Everything"  (Louisiana State Univ. Press 2024). This is a fascinating interview about a song that was a major rhythm & blues hit for Big Mama Thornton and a ground-breaking success for Elvis Presley a few years later. Through his research, Wynne is able to explain how this song through is many incarnations and having spurred two major lawsuits defined and re-defined the culture and business of popular music in the years that followed and to this day. This book is highly recommended!

    Errata: Craig got the title wrong both times ... it's "A Hound Dog Tale...," not "Hound Dog...."

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    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)       

    • 47 min
    190 - The Jason Lane Phenomenon: Every Pitcher Tells a Story

    190 - The Jason Lane Phenomenon: Every Pitcher Tells a Story

    Former Houston Astro Jason Lane is one of 21 pitchers in MLB history that have pitched or pitched at least 10 innings in the big leagues with a career ERA below 1.00. The list includes both Negro League players and players that played in the National Association (1871-75).

    We are looking at the background and history for all 21 players in this episode -- stories that include unfortunate injuries, bad luck, military service, returns home and other fates.

    Oh, believe it or not, one of the 21 players is a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee!

    In Part 2, Rex leads a review and discussion about the new motion picture, "Dune, Part Two."

    Errata: The correct name of the Negro League baseball database is Seamheads.com.

    Episodes Mentioned:
    189 - Baseball, Chemical Warfare and The Great War w/ Jim Leeke
    180 - When Your Cosplay Turns Into the Truth
    142 - The 1919 Black Sox w/ Jacob Pomrenke
    107 - Bert Shepard, Lou Brissie & Baseball During World War II
    106 - Baseball Rebels w/ Professor Peter Dreier

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    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
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    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ 
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)      

    • 1 hr 1 min
    189 - Baseball, Chemical Warfare and The Great War w/ Jim Leeke

    189 - Baseball, Chemical Warfare and The Great War w/ Jim Leeke

    This week's guest is Jim Leeke, author of the new book, "The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I" (Potomac Books, 2024). This is the Leeke's fifth book about baseball and the Great War authored by Leeke, a retired journalist, copywriter and U.S. Navy Veteran. We thoroughly enjoyed this chat.

    This interview discusses players such as Hall of Famers Eppa Rixey, Christy Matthewson and Ty Cobb that served in the Army's Chemical Warfare Service during the "The Great War."

    Leeke's other books on Baseball and The Great War are:
    "Ballplayers in the Great War: Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service" (2013) (co-edited);
    "Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918 (2015);
    "From, the Dugout to the Trenches: Baseball During the Great War (2017); and
    "The Best Team Over There: The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War" (2021)

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    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
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    Rex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ 
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)      

    • 53 min
    82 - Rube Waddell Would Make A Hell of a Movie w/ Prof. Alan H. Levy (Jan. 2022)

    82 - Rube Waddell Would Make A Hell of a Movie w/ Prof. Alan H. Levy (Jan. 2022)

    Life got in the way this week so we reached back into the archives for this interesting interview with Prof. Levy in January 2022. Here are the show notes from that episode:

    This week we discuss Hall of Fame southpaw, Rube Waddell with his biographer, Professor Alan Levy. Levy, a professor of history at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, published, "Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist" in 2000. Waddell was not only one of baseball's most talented pitchers in the first decade of the last century -- he stands out as one of the most colorful and unpredictable personalities as well. Join us for this exciting interview about one of baseball's most interesting personalities.

    Errata: In 1901, they were the Chicago Orphans, not the Chicago Cubs, as we discussed in Episode 77.

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    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
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    Rex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/  
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)      

    • 35 min
    188 - Fast Car, the Super Bowl, and Tik Tok Stories

    188 - Fast Car, the Super Bowl, and Tik Tok Stories

    Rex and Craig are on the case, from Luke Combs' "Fast Car" cover and performance at the Grammy Awards Show with songwriter Tracy Chapman; to our review of this year's Super Bowl halftime show starring Usher and friends; to our inquiring why some people get so triggered by Taylor Swift to Houston Astros pitchers and catchers reporting. Also, Craig has a couple of Tik Tok stories.

    Errata: Not really an error, but the quote from the Whatever Podcast is, "It's very convenient that women waited until after one of the most deadly and brutal wars to secure their right to vote." The vampire's name in "Nosferatu" (1922) was Graf Orlok, played by Max Schreck. The film starring Willem Defoe was "Shadow of the Vampire," not "Kiss of the Vampire." Craig replaced "Possum Kingdom" with Delta Spirit's "How 'Bout It." It's not made clear, but Nicky Minaj settled with Tracy Chapman. The "Mark" in Devo is Mark Mothersbaugh.

    Some Links
    Chris Willman, "Nicki Minaj Agrees to Pay Tracy Chapman $450,000 in Settlement Over Unauthorized Sample," Variety.com, January 8, 2021.
    Nick DeRiso, "Why Don't Rock Bands Play the Super Bowl Halftime Show Anymore?" at UltimateClassicRock.com, February 7, 2024.
    Max Pilley, "Dua Lipa thinks people don’t want pop stars to be 'political' or 'smart'" NME.com January 21, 2024.

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    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
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    Rex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ 
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)     

    • 52 min
    187 - There's Something Special About Baseball w/ Harris Cooper, Ph.D.

    187 - There's Something Special About Baseball w/ Harris Cooper, Ph.D.

    Harris Cooper, Ph.D. is the  Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and for our more immediate purposes author of "Finding America in a Minor League Ballpark: A Season Hosting for the Durham Bulls" (Skyhorse, 2024). He is our guest this week to talk about his book and the joys of baseball.

    Errata: Ron Shelton wrote and directed "Bull Durham."

    Episodes Mentioned
    148 - Baseball Is the Story of America w/ Derick McDuff

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    Andrew Eckhoff on Tik Tok
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    Rex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ 
    Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)     

    • 45 min

Customer Reviews

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Unique Mix- Like Gumbo

If you LOVE baseball stats mixed with baseball history…. If you LOVE current music and don’t have time to follow it…If you LOVE the idea of 2 guys just sitten’ around talking, theorizing, predicting and laughing…. Then this is YOUR podcast!

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