America's Pastime

Baseball has long been called America's pastime, but some feel the pastime is just that, past. Do conversations happening in and around the NFL and NBA better reflect America today? Or is the game of baseball just too long for the 21st-century sports fan? This week, we sit down with Liz Bloom, current Harvard MBA/MPP and former Pittsburgh Pirates beat reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, to talk about how baseball has historically been a petri dish for society's issues and where the league is today. Want more This Week in Dystopia? Don't forget to

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America's Pastime is an episode from This Week in Dystopia by Sarah Grucza.

This episode is 00:16:55 long.

This episode was published on Apr 11, 2019.

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