Episode 248: The Last Game

第248集:最后的游戏

the memory palace

2026-09-18

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.  Music Why, Buzzardman, Why? by the great Alabastar DePlume. Plantwood (Day) by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice Shut Up World (Extended) from Ben Sollee's gorgeous score to a movie called Maidentrip. Notes I really enjoyed reading Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville. If you're ever researching old baseball stuff, you want to head over to the site maintained by the fine folks at the Society for Baseball Research. There, you can read about Frank Howard, for instance.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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