Guest host Max Pringle speaks with Chico State University sociologist Vernon Andrews about his new book “Policing Black Athletes: Racial Disconnect in Sports.” Andrews argues that outspoken black athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick have always come in for criticism when they speak up about the injustices around them and refuse to just “shut up and play.”
Then, historian Thomas Gilbert joins us to talk about his newest book “How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed, the True Story Revealed.” The book explores how baseball’s early executives pushed charming myths about the game’s origin to market the national pastime. The truth, Gilbert argues, is a lot more interesting.
