Episode 87: Victory


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Apr 23 2016 16 mins   321

Music

* We hear Portrait Gallery from Luke Howard.

* A smidgen of Julia Kent’s lovely Dorval.

* The incomparable Moondog’s Gloving It pops up a couple times (as it tends to do around these parts).

* Denmark by the Portland Cello Project rolls out for quite awhile.

* John Lewis and Sacha Distel play the title track from their Afternoon in Paris album.

* There’s a bit of Eine Kleine Gamelan Music from The Gamelan Son of Lion (seriously).

* Ends on P, by Labradford.


NOTES

* The classic text on Charlie Faust is Lawrence Ritter’s The Glory of Their Times:the Story of the Early Days of Baseball as Told by the Men Who Played It, one of the key texts of early baseball history, first published in 1966.

* The definitive resource on Faust is Gabriel Schecter, who’s written his biography for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research, and a monograph called Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw’s Giants.

* I also want to point you to Rob Neyer’s lovely piece on visiting Faust’s grave.