FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron in Black and White
Episode 446
Dave Cameron is both (a) the managing editor of FanGraphs and (b) the guest on this particular edition of FanGraphs Audio — during which edition he discusses a documentary concerning the murder of his grandfather that’s featured this coming weekend at the Maryland Film Festival.
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Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
Very interesting (and tragic, obviously). Sounds like a really good doc and I hope it makes it to Netflix or wherever at some point.
(Oh, also, I enjoy the non-baseball digressions, as long as it isn’t an all-the-time kind of thing. Being completely upfront about it, like with the Dayn Perry episodes, is also right by me.)
This discussion on the Cubs was rather lighthearted and all but it’s worth noting that a tipping point is currently being reached. Attendance has been down year over year for about three years.
Rednecks and biscuits. Comedy Gold!
1st time listener.
How did Chris Griffin get on the show?
Division I college baseball teams can give out 11.7 scholarships, as opposed to 85 for football. (And football can only give out full scholarships, while obviously baseball gives partial scholarships.) The reason why has more to do with Title IX than with revenue generation, although the issue is complicated.
If one was interested in exploring the relationship between troubled community and its baseball team, it might be worth seeing if Patrick Harrigan, emeritus professor of history at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, might be interested in talking about his 1997 book on the Detroit Tigers.
I skipped this one at the time because I wasn’t in the mood, but I’m glad I waited until I was and I’m glad I went back and listened to it later. This was maybe the most interesting and enjoyable podcast you two have done. I don’t think that directly correlates to it being the one that was by far the least-concerned with baseball, but…