246 - Remembering the St. Louis Browns w/ Ed Wheatley

Hooks & Runs

Ed Wheatley, president of the St. Louis Browns Historical Society, joins us this week to discuss the Browns, an American League team from 1902 to 1953. Wheatley is the co-author of "St. Louis Browns: The Story of a Beloved Team" (Reedy Press 2017), which was selected best book published on baseball in 2017 by Sports Collectors Digest and nominated for the Larry Ritter Award as the best book on baseball published in 2017 by Society for American Baseball Research.

Wheatley was also technical advisor for the award winning PBS documentary " The St. Louis Browns - The Team Baseball Forgot" (2018) and was executive producer of the award winning sequel "A Baseball Legacy - Fans Remember the St. Louis Browns" (2019).

Ed Wheatley on Facebook, at Reedy Press
https://www.facebook.com/edward.wheatley.56/
https://reedypress.com/author/wheatley/ed-wheatley/
The St. Louis Browns Historical Society webpage
https://www.thestlbrowns.com/
Stream "The St. Louis Browns - The Team Baseball Forgot"
https://tinyurl.com/baseballforgot
Stream "A Baseball Legacy - Fans Remember the St. Louis Browns"
https://tinyurl.com/fansremember

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Veeck, the Browns and Houston (00:03:32)

3. The Historical Society: The Browns were a blue collar team (00:05:42)

4. How the Browns became the Browns (00:11:54)

5. Fork in the Road: Sam Breadon, Branch Rickey and the Cardinals' Rise (00:17:35)

6. The Brown were the loveable losers (00:20:55)

7. The Great George Sisler (00:23:57)

8. Pete Gray (00:32:12)

9. The Sunday Pitcher - Denny Galehouse (00:36:38)

10. Thank you Ed Wheatley! (00:39:03)

11. Rex gloats over his red hot Padres (00:41:48)

12. Vladimir Guerrero's signing bonus (00:47:30)

13. A podcast announcement & close (00:50:28)