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We begin once more with nice guys who finish last, but we confront the possibility that the qualifier was overstated, segue into the “Window Breakers” Giants of the late 1940s, Octavius Catto and Tommy Henrich, two pitchers who had more than their share of freak injuries, and so much more. Plus some more thoughts on the future of the show. The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman discusses the game's 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'll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can't get anybody out?

Rex and I are taking two weeks to recover from the holidays and holiday travel and will be back January 16 with the first episode of Season Six. Here are the show notes from our Episode 106:-------------------------------------------This week Professor Peter Dreier (Occidental College) joins Hooks & Runs to discuss his new book, "Baseball Rebels: The Players, People and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America" (Univ. Nebraska Press, 2022), co-authored with Prof. Robert Elias. The conversation covers not only well known names in baseball history like Bill Veeck and Larry Doby but also little known players almost forgotten by history. You'll hear amazing stories about people like Octavius Catto, Sam Nahem, Jackie Mitchell and more. This is a highly recommended book.Dreier and Elias, incidentally, also released a companion book, "Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles Over Workers' Rights and American Empire" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)."Previously on Hooks & Runs" - Professor Jeremi Duru on Curt Flood (Ep. 104).Check It Out:Prof. Dreier  recommends The History Channel's documentary, "After Jackie"Rex recommends the new single from Megadeth, "We'll Be Back."Andrew recommends "Operation Mincemeat," starring Colin Firth and available on Netflix.Craig recommends the new album from a reunited Porcupine Tree, "Closure/Continuation." This is "Of the New Day." You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books, including books featured in this episode, through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns Hooks & Runs - www.hooksandruns.com Email: hooksandruns@protonmail.com Hooks & Runs on TwitterCraig on Bluesky (@craigest.bsky.social)Rex (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ Hosts Emeriti:Andrew on Tik TokEric on Facebook Opening and closing music, "Caroline" by Craig Estlinbaum. All rights reserved.  This podcast and this episode are copyright Craig Estlinbaum, 2022, 2025, all rights reserved. 

PA Youth Votes' Angelique Hinton, Kamryn Davis and a high school senior explain how they engage future leaders with education and events programming to connect the dots between the issues they care about, voting, and holding elected officials accountable. Then, artists and curators lead a tour of the collective public art initiative, “Legacy Reclaimed: A 7th Ward Tribute,” encompassing the blocks between 6th and 23rd Streets and Spruce and South Streets, whose residents once included Richard Allen, Octavius Catto and W.E.B. Du Bois. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join us on a profound journey as we uncover the remarkable yet often overlooked story of Octavius Catto. Tune in as we pay homage to the life and legacy of Octavius Catto. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cemetery/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cemetery/support

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This week Professor Peter Dreier (Occidental College) joins Hooks & Runs to discuss his new book, "Baseball Rebels: The Players, People and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America" (Univ. Nebraska Press, 2022), co-authored with Prof. Robert Elias. The conversation covers not only well known names in baseball history like Bill Veeck and Larry Doby but also little known players almost forgotten by history. You'll hear amazing stories about people like Octavius Catto, Sam Nahem, Jackie Mitchell and more. This is a highly recommended book.Dreier and Elias, incidentally, also released a companion book, "Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles Over Workers' Rights and American Empire" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)."Previously on Hooks & Runs" - Professor Jeremi Duru on Curt Flood (Ep. 104).Check It Out:Prof. Dreier  recommends The History Channel's documentary, "After Jackie"Rex recommends the new single from Megadeth, "We'll Be Back."Andrew recommends "Operation Mincemeat," starring Colin Firth and available on Netflix.Craig recommends the new album from a reunited Porcupine Tree, "Closure/Continuation." This is "Of the New Day."Hooks & Runs - Website, Twitter, BuzzsproutCraig Estlinbaum on TwitterAndrew Eckhoff on Gather.com (dead link)Rex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on FacebookOpening and closing music, "Caroline" by Craig Estlinbaum. All rights reserved.This podcast and this episode are copyright Craig Estlinbaum, 2022, all rights reserved.   

We discuss the value of celebrating Black American Heritage in all area of people activity. We use historical references during the 1800's and the Civil War. Sussie King Taylor, Octavius Catto, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet & Dr. Frances Cress Welsing are used to add context. 

This Winter, the Early Baseball Era Committee will meet to vote on ten candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame. This committee covers all of baseball before 1950. The ballot will consider players from the White major leagues and the Black major leagues as well as pioneers, managers, umpires, and executives. How will the committee distill over 100 years of baseball into just ten names? To complicate matters, this committee won't meet again for ten years. This episode covers the pioneers of the game, from its origins into the 20th century. SABR member Joe Williams joins the podcast. We talk about baseball's origins (candidates like Doc Adams and Will Wheaton), Black Baseball (Bud Fowler, Grant Johnson, George Stovey, Octavius Catto, etc.), Amateur Era players (Jim Creighton, Joe Leggett, Joe Sprague, etc.), National Association Era players (Ross Barnes, Dickey Pearce, Joe Start, etc.), and more (Al Reach, Chris Von der Ahe, John Gaffney, Lefty O'Doul, etc.). Joe Williams on Twitter: http://twitter.com/lheadsgridiron SABR Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legends: https://sabr.org/sabr-overlooked-19th-century-baseball-legends

About Todd Mealy, Ph.D. Todd is the author of seven books, including Race-Conscious Pedagogy: Disrupting Racism at Majority-White Schools (2020); Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning with Linda Schwab (2019); Glenn Killinger, All American: Penn State's World War I Era Sports Hero (2018); This Is the Rat Speaking: Black Power and the Promise of Racial Consciousness at Franklin and Marshall College in the Age of the Takeover (2017); Legendary Locals of Harrisburg (2014), Aliened American: A Biography of William Howard Day, 1825-1900, Vols. I and II (2010); and Biography of an Antislavery City: Antislavery Activists, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Operatives in Harrisburg, Pa (2007). Todd authored a chapter in From the Pews: The Story of the Bethel AME Church in Harrisburg (2015). He has also published several articles in Pennsylvania Heritage and American Heritage. Todd's scholarship on the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania along with Black abolitionist and educator William Howard Day has been cited in works by Steve Luxenberg (Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation), Richard Blackett (Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery), and the late Hari Jones ("Deciphering the African American Mystery in American History"). His research on Glenn Killinger is also featured in Anne R. Keene's acclaimed book The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II (2018). Mealy holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University. He also attained a Master's degree from the same institution, where he was the 2014 recipient of the John S. Patterson Award for academic and creative achievement. In 2018, he received the university's Sue Samuelson Award for his doctoral dissertation.  He is a contributing writer for Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine. His publications in the magazine include pieces about the 19th-century trials that led to the end of legal segregation in Pennsylvania's public schools; the abolitionist and cofounder of the Liberty Party Francis Julius LeMoyne; an All-American football player from Penn State who reached the pinnacle of his career following World War I named Glenn Killinger; the 100-year history of the Penn State Nittany Lions - Pittsburgh Panthers football rivalry; and the greatest African American women's tennis and basketball player before World War II, Ora Mae Washington.  Todd's latest publication in Pennsylvania Heritage is "Muhammad Ali at Fighter's Heaven," a 4,000-word article taking a look at the eight years Muhammad Ali spent training at a long-forgotten training camp in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He has one forthcoming article due out in Spring 2021 titled "Without Fear and without Reproach: Octavius V. Catto and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Pennsylvania," which explores the life of Octavius Catto, an African American civil rights activist and educator killed in Philadelphia trying to protect Black voters on October 10, 1871, just a year after the ratification of the 15th Amendment. The newest book written by Todd is Race-Conscious Pedagogy: Disrupting Racism at Majority-White High Schools (McFarland & Co.). It is an appeal for race-conscious education at predominantly white high schools. The book's Foreword is written by Dr. Terrence Roberts, known for his role as one of the Little Rock Nine students that desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Writing the Afterword is philosopher George Yancy, author of several books on race, including Across Black Spaces; Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Race in America; and On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis. In 2020, Todd launched the Equity Institute for Race-Conscious Pedagogy, LLC to advance scholarship in race-centered learning while advocating for social justice through pedagogy and curriculum. Founded to help educators at all levels write curriculum with a critical race lens, the institute also carries a research agenda to enhance race-conscious pedagogies through academic publications.  Todd also is an adjunct professor in the History Department at Dickinson College and works as Director of Equity and Instruction at The Bond Educational Group. The Bond offers coaching services to under-resourced K-12 and postsecondary students and provides professional development coaching to educators, athletic coaches, and professionals in the corporate sector, which includes specifically tailored programming. As Director of Equity and Instruction, Todd is The Bond's curriculum writer.   Mealy was born in Bradford in 1979, grew up in Harrisburg, and currently lives in Lancaster with his wife, Melissa, Ed.D., son, Carter, and daughter, Adeline. He has taught in Lancaster County public schools since 2001. He spends summers traveling to countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. He also coached high school football for twenty-two years. These experiences helped shape his focus on issues related to social justice, race theory, political history, and sports culture.  Show Highlights Race Conscious Pedagogy The importance of Multicultural Education The colorblind classroom When you haven’t personally experienced racism Being silent What happens when we shut down conversations about race in the classroom Authentic conversations Connect with Todd Equity Institute for Race Conscious Pedagogy - https://www.raceconsciouspedagogy.org/ Author's Website - https://www.toddmealy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ToddMealy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/todd.mealy.7 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-m-mealy-ph-d-37492b191/

Octavius Catto, a 19th century activist, stands in bronze as the first statue of a black man on Philadelphia public property. And he’s coming back to life in other ways--on a giant mural, and in the art and social justice scenes of the city. What would this statue of an activist from history say to the activists surrounding it now...why is he back, and what’s he trying to tell us? Produced in memory of Willis “Nomo” Humphrey. Producer: Melina Walling Featuring: Melina Walling, Keir Johnston, Shakirah, Eddy, Kim McCleary, Branly Cadet, Dejay Duckett, Paul Farber Music: sonder, johnny_ripper, epilogue; Everybody Wants Gold and a Mermaid, Tony Higgins, Ray-A Life Underwater; You Can Calmly Put This Thing Together (Piece by Piece), junior85, Upside Down, Left to Right; Flight, Nctrnm, EQUINOX

In this week's episode, I get reflective about the 4th of July, learn some history about Octavius Catto, and examine the changing nature of relationships. I also make some comparisons between canvassing in the city vs. the suburbs and discover that I need some practice talking to people who don't agree with me. And finally, you may have noticed some new music at the beginning of my podcast. That song is called New Year by the very talented local singer song writer, Avi Wisnia. There's a link to hear more of his music in the show notes. --- Links --- Avi Wisnia: https://aviwisnia.com/ Octavius Catto: http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/murder-of-octavius-catto/ Madeleine Dean: https://www.mad4pa.com/ Katie Muth: https://www.katiemuthforpasenate44.com/ Pam Hacker: https://www.pamhackerforpa26.com/ Chrissy Houlahan: https://www.chrissyhoulahanforcongress.com/ Western Chester County Dems: https://westernccdemocrats.com/ --- Stay in Touch --- http://www.beth4phl.com

Profiles in Courage

Barb digs into this week's Gospel in her sermon on the life of the Black educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist Octavius Catto.

Get Out The Vote with Activist Stella Antley!   This show is dedicated to the memory of Octavius Catto ~In 1871, during the the first election in which blacks could vote,  Octavius Catto was murdered by a Democratic party operative while canvassing for Republican candidates. On his way back from the polls, Catto, who had spearheaded a get-out-the-vote drive for black voters, was shot in the back by a political opponent. Catto’s funeral was the city’s largest to date. His assassination rallied his supporters in the Republican Party, which would dominate Philadelphia politics for the next 80 years, thanks in part to black support. Succeeding generations of African Americans named buildings and professional organizations after him. But by the middle of the 20th century, as the civil rights movement turned its attention to desegregating the South and ensuring housing equality in the North, Catto had become, as his graveside monument proclaims, a “Forgotten Hero.” As perhaps the only historical figure who has been compared to both George Steinbrenner and Rosa Parks, he’s worth remembering. The first full-length biography of Catto, Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, was published in 2010. It is available for purchase at the National Constitutional Center’s gift shop.  His death was a harbinger of a new era in race relations in which the achievement of full civil rights for African Americans would be a dream long deferred.