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2024 Minicast – Cook & Son PhD Ceremony

Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

Release Date: 02/22/2024

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ed Kasputis interviews author Jim Collins about his updated book, The Last Best League.

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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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Ed Kasputis interviews comedian and author, Steve Melia about his book, The Last 42: Life is Short – Enjoy the Journey which honors both Yankee closer, Mariano Rivera and Steve’s older brother, Jim who passed away on August 2, 2013.

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Congratulations to Dick Allen, Dave Parker, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner for being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Our PhD Committee salutes these five and debate if there is parity in Major League Baseball.

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