Hooks & Runs
Hooks & Runs 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 (more or less).
Podcasting since 2020 • 224 episodes
Hooks & Runs
Latest Episodes
272 - The Spirit of Radio w/ Dave South
Dave South was the radio voice of Texas A&M Athletics from 1985 to his retirement in 2018. He is the author of "You Saw Me on the Radio: Recollections and Favorite Calls as the Voice of Aggie Athletics" (Texas A&M Univ. Press 2019), whi...
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Season 6
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Episode 272
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51:20
271 - Hard Caps, Soft Caps, Salary Floors and Baseball Cards
This week on the podcast - a bizarre ending to a high school football game, the soon to be expired Collective Bargaining Agreement has baseball fans scrambling to learn about salary caps, and we open another set of baseball cards.Errata:...
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Season 6
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Episode 271
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40:08
270 - "Second Base? That's My Best Position!" w/ Trenidad Hubbard
Trenidad Hubbard played 10 Major League seasons in a 19-year professional baseball career. A Chicago native, Hubbard played college ball at Southern University, was draf...
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Season 6
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Episode 270
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49:16
269 - Ralph Branca: Baseball's Everyman w/ Bob Mitchell
Bob Mitchell is a retired professor, award winning advertising creative and tennis teaching pro. He has published 13 books and countless essays and articles, including his most recent book, "Ralph Branca and the Meaning of Life" (McFarland Pres...
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Season 6
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Episode 269
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48:53
268 - Baseball & Music w/ Bill Nowlin
Bill Nowlin was a co-founder of Rounder Records in the early 1960s and is a co-founder of Down the Road Records. He most recently co-edited "Native American Major Leaguers," (Society for American Baseball Research, 2025), with Rob Daugher...
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Season 6
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Episode 268
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