Episode 27: Major League Baseball Postseason - One, Two, Three Times You're Out...
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." ~ American historian Jacques Barzun.
Baseball is more than a game.
It's memories, individual and collective. It's culture, consciousness and being. America's favourite pastime has been filling stadia for a century and a half, can boast the oldest professional sports league in the world and moments in its history that transcend the sport.
Each season since 1903 the champions of each of its two leagues have met for the World Series for the right to be called the best team in baseball. This week, Ben and Jack explore how this series came to be, and talk about a handful of its greatest - and darkest - moments, its legendary curses, and finally going in depth about the greatest man ever to swing a bat - The Sultan of Swat, the Titan of Terror, the Collosus of Clout, the King of Crash and the Great Bambino himself, Babe Ruth.
So let us take you out to the ball game, peanuts and crackerjack not included but love and reverence in abundance. Because baseball... it's more than a game.
