Infinite Inning 085: A Man Cant Worry and Hit Home Runs

Published: Dec. 22, 2018, midnight

b'Table of Contents

The Embedded Yankee: An Analogy*Babe Ruth\\u2019s Rough Year*Jane Leavy: A New View of the Babe*Felicitous Accidents of Research (Johnny Bassler and the Babe\\u2019s Childhood)*The Crimes of Babe Ruth\\u2019s Parents Against Babe Ruth*Ruth\\u2019s Right-Wing Connection*The Indispensable Christy Walsh*There is No Asterisk!*Fifty-Ounce Bats (What Would Ruth Do Today?)*In Search of the Inner Babe*The Unprecedented Revelation of Claire*Ruth\\u2019s Inner Hunger and the Babe at St. Mary\\u2019s*After the Cheering Stopped*The Tender Ruth?*Babe Ruth vs. Florence Nightingale for All the Nurses*Why Were the Owners So Angry at Ruth?/Ruth as Divisive Racial Figure*The Great Man Votes*The Romance of Ruth*Goodbyes.

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The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game\\u2019s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they\\u2019ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can\\u2019t get anybody out?'