Table of Contents

The Embedded Yankee: An AnalogyBabe Ruth’s Rough YearJane Leavy: A New View of the BabeFelicitous Accidents of Research (Johnny Bassler and the Babe’s Childhood)The Crimes of Babe Ruth’s Parents Against Babe RuthRuth’s Right-Wing ConnectionThe Indispensable Christy WalshThere is No Asterisk!Fifty-Ounce Bats (What Would Ruth Do Today?)In Search of the Inner BabeThe Unprecedented Revelation of ClaireRuth’s Inner Hunger and the Babe at St. Mary’sAfter the Cheering StoppedThe Tender Ruth?Babe Ruth vs. Florence Nightingale for All the NursesWhy Were the Owners So Angry at Ruth?/Ruth as Divisive Racial FigureThe Great Man VotesThe Romance of RuthGoodbyes.

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The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?