7244: Sandy Koufax — Why Baseball's Most Dominant Pitcher Walked Away at Thirty | pplpod
Sandy Koufax pitched four no-hitters, won three Cy Young Awards, and was the most dominant pitcher in baseball. Then, at thirty years old and at the absolute peak of his abilities, he retired. His lef...
16 Juni 20min
7243: Miles Davis — The Relentless Genius Who Never Looked Back | pplpod
Miles Davis reinvented jazz at least five times. Every time the world caught up to what he was doing, he abandoned it and started something new. Cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, jazz fusion, electroni...
16 Juni 20min
7242: Edmund Hillary — The Shy Beekeeper Who Conquered Mount Everest | pplpod
Edmund Hillary kept bees for a living and described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In 1953 he and Tenzing Norgay became the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit of ...
16 Juni 21min
7241: Joe Montana — The Invisible Metrics Behind Football's Coolest Quarterback | pplpod
Joe Montana never had the strongest arm or the fastest legs. What he had was an ability to process information under pressure that no metric could capture and no defender could rattle. He won four Sup...
16 Juni 19min
7240: Hayao Miyazaki — The Fierce Contradictions of Animation's Greatest Living Artist | pplpod
Hayao Miyazaki has announced his retirement at least four times and come back every time. He hand-draws thousands of frames for films that gross hundreds of millions, rages against the modern world wh...
16 Juni 20min
7239: Freddie Mercury — The Shy Refugee Behind Rock's Greatest Frontman | pplpod
Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, fled a revolution as a teenager, and arrived in England as a quiet, self-conscious immigrant. He transformed himself into the most electrifying li...
16 Juni 23min
7238: Lauren Bacall — The Relentless Reinvention of a Hollywood Legend | pplpod
Lauren Bacall was nineteen when she told Humphrey Bogart to whistle for her and became a star overnight. When Bogart died twelve years later, Hollywood assumed her career was over too. She spent the n...
16 Juni 22min
7237: Billy Wilder — The Refugee Who Invented Modern American Comedy | pplpod
Billy Wilder fled Austria ahead of the Nazis, arrived in Hollywood speaking almost no English, and became the sharpest comedy writer-director in American film history. Some Like It Hot, The Apartment,...
16 Juni 21min
