Episode 87 (Victory)
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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. * We hear To), from Zach Cooper's Styles Upon Styles. * 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.