2025 Orlando Cepeda
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Let’s learn about Baseball Hall of Famer, Orlando Cepeda as Ed Kasputis interviews baseball historian, Bruce Markusen.
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Spring Training 2025
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We enjoy spring as spring training breaks out in Arizona and Florida. Ed Kasputis interviews Matt Moreno from dodgerblue.com about the spring training experience.
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2025 Warren Spahn
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Warren Spahn won 363 games ranking him as the winningest southpaw in Major League history. Ed Kasputis interviews author, Lew Freedman about his compelling book.
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The Flip Side of Greatness
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Ed Kasputis interviews baseball author, Chris Williams about his book, The Flip Side of Greatness: THE BASEBALL BOZO AWARD 1920-1999 which “honors” players who toiled on some of the game’s greatest teams of all time but didn’t do very well statistically.
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2025 Willie McCovey
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Let’s learn about Hall of Fame Great, Willie McCovey who hit 521 career home runs and passed away in 2018 at the age of 80. Ed Kasputis interviews baseball historian, Mark Armour about “Willie Mac.”
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Travel Ball
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While Spring Training has begun, let’s talk about the youngsters. Travel Ball, is it good or bad? Ed Kasputis interviews former prosecutor turned pitching coach and now podcaster, Jack Moore from the YouTube channel, mooretoconsider.
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2025 The Walker Brothers
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Ed Kasputis and Dave Matejczyk interview baseball historian, Craig Brown about Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856 – 1924) and Weldy Walker (1860 – 1937), who were the first two African American professional baseball players.
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Mets Stories
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Let’s go back to 1969 with former Met, Art Shamsky as Ed interviews him about his new book, Mets Stories: I Only Tell my Friends.
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2025 Minicast – The Last Best League
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Ed Kasputis interviews author Jim Collins about his updated book, The Last Best League.
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2025 Just Like Me
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Ed Kasputis interviews author, Kelly G. Park about his new book, Just Like Me: When the Pros Played on the Sandlot which is the first book to tell the story of professional baseball players’ memories of playing youth baseball.
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The Catcher Who Was a Spy
This week we honor the man who inspired the creation of Baseball PhD – Moe Berg (1902 – 1972). Moe Berg got his PhD in life – through baseball. Berg spoke 12 languages travelled the world, played in the major leagues and served as America’s foremost atomic spy during World War II. Berg knew about the existence of America’s atomic bomb before President Truman! Discover his story as Ralph Berger, Louis Jacobson, Chuck Brodsky, Linda McCarthy and our PhD Committee remember Moe Berg.