Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week a discussion on America's

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Communications Professor Michael Sarazio discusses how baseball connects Americans to their past and

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Great, awesome.

Welcome, gang.

This is a different setting for us.

But I hope you guys have had a wonderful week.

We're going to dive right into the material today

because we're going to try to keep it to about an hour.

Conversation today is going to be all about baseball and the chapter that I had you read

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