![And the Pitch artwork](https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts125/v4/a3/7b/82/a37b8220-9e0f-368f-fd2c-269889afff1a/mza_7696173179808777906.jpg/100x100bb.jpg)
06. Dodger Stadium’s First Pitch & All that Preceded It, w/ Eric Nusbaum
And the Pitch
English - August 17, 2021 15:39 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBaseball Sports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Eric Nusbaum is the author of the book Stealing Home and the co-creator of the Substack newsletter Sports Stories. We talk about the first pitch at Dodger Stadium in 1962 and the tangled story of how it all came to be. We also talk about baseball’s westward expansion, public housing, communism, the Red Scare, the communities that formerly sat in Chavez Ravine, the LA Times, ignoring history, Disneyland, Frank Wilkinson, gentrification, killer whales, power, To Kill a Mockingbird and the lasting impact of those communities and the families who lived there.
Justin: https://twitter.com/routinelayup
Eric: Living a Twitter free life for a while
Stealing Home: https://bookshop.org/books/stealing-home-los-angeles-the-dodgers-and-the-lives-caught-in-between-9781541742222/9781541742215
Sports Stories: https://sportsstories.substack.com/
Email podcast ideas: [email protected]