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).
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Signup to Generate a PitchHooks & 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).
Recent episodes include "304 - Texans in the Hall: Nolan Ryan (We'll Meet Again)" (23 September 2026, 50 minutes), "303 - Bob Dylan Comes to Town: Dylan in Cincinnati w. Graley Herren" (14 September 2026, 65 minutes), and "302 - Never Enough Versions, Labor Wars and the First Immaculate Inning" (12 September 2026, 30 minutes).
Hooks & Runs publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 256 episodes.
Booking probability for Hooks & Runs is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hooks & Runs requires a Pod Score of 84 or higher. Hooks & Runs's contact route on record: verified email.
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Hooks & Runs is a sports podcast with 256 episodes published.
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Episode #304
This episode marks the end of not just the Texans in the Hall series but also the podcast, at least for now, says Rex. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. Nolan Ryan is a living legend with 324 career wins, 5,714 career...
Episode #303
Dr. Graley Herren is Professor of English at Xavier University and author of the new book, Dylan in Cincinnati (University Press of Mississippi, September 2026). He joins us this week to talk about the book and all...
Episode #302
Rex and Craig discuss the Grammy Award winning rock band Turnstile, released "Never Enough: Versions," remaking their most recent album "Never Enough" in collaboration with artists as diverse as Angel Du$t, Hayley...
Episode #301
It's all in the title. Errata: This episode is late arriving - since recording and through September 5, Baez is 13-74 (.176) with 4 home runs and 27 strikeouts in 74 innings since hitting the historic three home runs...
Episode #300
Craig and Rex take on the big issues of the day for episode number 300 - Joshua Baez's historic debut, Ritchie Blackmore's return to Deep Purple (for one song), Tommy John's passing causes reassessment of his Hall of...
Episode #299
This week Craig and Rex take a look at players that led their league in home runs after 1920 but hit less than 200 career home runs. The list includes one Hall of Famer (George Kelly), some that came close (Jake...
Episode #298
This week we resume our series Texans in the Hall by looking at the lives and careers of two great Texan ballplayers - Louis Santop and Biz Mackey. Santop and Mackey were both born in the Texas in the late 19th Century...
Episode #297
Bruce S. Allardice joins us this week to discuss the Chicago White Sox in the years immediately after the Black Sox scandal that tainted the 1919 World Series. Allardice is the author of After the Black Sox: The Chicago...
Episode #296
Professor Willie Steele (Lipscomb) joins us this week to discuss the forthcoming 9-Online Virtual Baseball Conference . Steele is a conference co-director and past editor of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture...
Episode #295
Professor John Ferling (University of West Georgia) joins the podcast this week to talk about his new book, Baseball As It Was: Building Champions Before Free Agency Changed Everything (Tatra Press, May 2026). The book...
Episode #294
This week on Hooks & Runs, the theatrical doom metal quartet Castle Rat gets a major article in Spin, Craig wanders into more Astro sign stealing controversy on social media, the truth about (Babe) Ruth (in 1922)...
Episode #293
Randall Sullivan, former contributing editor to Rolling Stone and author of The Price of Experience , and Untouchable , joins Hooks & Runs this week to discuss his latest book, The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR...
Episode #292
Between players jumping contracts and entangling themselves in gambling scandals; the lack of a clear, consistent enforcement authority and conference (league) realignments, one could easily confuse current state of the...
Episode #291
Chapter 1 - Paul Hofmann, Ph.D., Associate Provost for International Affairs at the University of Louisville and Society for American Baseball Research member, joins us this week to discuss Charlie Ferguson, a forgotten...
Episode #290
Author Perry T. Cooper is our guest this week. Cooper's new book, "The 1890 Louisville Cyclones: Major League Baseball's Original Worst-to-First Team" (McFarland, March 2026). Louisville finished the 1889 American...
Episode #289
This week it's Rex and Craig musing over baseball and music news of the day including: Wander Franco's legal troubles are not over; Shohei Ohtani's amazing year; Fernando Tatis, Jr.'s power outage; NL Central...
Episode #288
David Faflik, a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Rhode Island has a new book titled "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (Univ. of Massachusetts Press 2026)...
Episode #287
Our guest for Chapter 1 is John McMurray, chair of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)'s Deadball Era Research Committee. His essay, " September 1, 1906: A Pivotal Game Early in the Deadball Era ,"...
Episode #285
Author and historian Kevin J. Abing is our guest this week to talk about the 1926 St. Louis Cardinals, on the 100th Anniversary of the team's first World Series championships. Abing is author of "Baseball Magic and...
Episode #285
Hooks & Runs returns to weekly episodes with this continuation of our series "Texans in the Hall." This entry examines the career of Tris Speaker, who played 22 years in the Majors hitting .345 with over 3,500 hits and...
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Author of "THE FIRST ALL-STAR GAME: Babe Ruth, FDR, and America at the Crossroads"
director of the School of Architecture, Cuba Solidarity Campaign
head of the animal studies program, Global Electronics Council
Baseball Hall of Famer and Reds legend, Missouri Council of the Blind
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