Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman
Ep.17 - Press Box Chronicles - David Wells
Season 3, Episode 17
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Sports, Talk Show, 22-May-2026
Today, we're diving into one of my most embarrassing, regrettable, egregious stories of all time. I'm a young, 20-something-year-old writer at Sports Illustrated, sent to Toronto, Canada, to profile one of the best pitchers in baseball at the time: David Wells. What happened next still gives me embarrassment to this day.
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