2025 New Year’s Eve Podcast
Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)
Happy New Year. We celebrate 2024 while we look forward to 2025. Our PhD Committee reviews the strange but true events of 2024 in Major League Baseball.
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2024 Mel Allen Re-broadcast
Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)
Mordecai Israel was his name Mel Allen was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up to become the “Voice of the Yankees“. Our PhD Committee relives his great life with the help of authors, Stephen Borelli, Stanley Cohen and Rob Edelman. Our podcast also talks about Cliff Lee returning to the Phillies and notable baseball deaths for 2010. Then it’s time for At the Mixer with Marty […]
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2024 Christmas Podcast
Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)
Merry Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our savior. Our PhD Committee interviews Jeff Cohen from the podcast, Baseball and BBQ about the Mets signing Juan Soto who they believe might the savior for their organization. Time will tell.
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2024 Ernie Harwell Re-broadcast
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This podcast features baseball sportscaster great, Ernie Harwell. Our PhD Committee first reviews Major League Baseball’s playoff expansion idea of adding an additional wild card team in each league and then shifts into analyzing who is listening to our podcasts. Then it’s time for Harwell. Hear Harwell’s moving 1955 poem – The Definition of Baseball, then hear Harwell’s account of baseball’s Shot Heard ‘Round the […]
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2024 Vin Scully Re-broadcast
Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)
Greatest Baseball Sportscaster of All Time Our PhD Committee honors Vin Scully (1927 – 2022) as the greatest baseball sportscaster of all time. Ed, Farley and Mark then explore the life of Scully and listen to some of his greatest clips. Ed then interviews Dodger faithful and English Professor, Frank Ardolino about Scully. We then […]
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Golden At-Bat
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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred floated the idea of the Golden At-Bat. We debate as we bask in President Trump’s re-election. Was 2024 Trump’s Golden At-Bat?
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2024 Wichita Balk
Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)
Ed Kasputis interviews Steve Schuster, voice of the Winnipeg Goldeyes about an unforgettable Game 4 of the 2017 American Association Championship Series.
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2024 Baseball Comedy
Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)
Our PhD Committee examines and celebrates the comedians who love baseball through their unforgettable skits.
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2024 Minicast – James “Deacon” White
Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)
Ed Kasputis interviews baseball researcher, James D. Smith III about the barehanded catcher, James “Deacon” White (1847-1939) who will be the only player inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 28, 2013.
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2024 Summer of ’68
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Ed Kasputis interviews author, Tim Wendel about his book, Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball – and America – Forever. From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral. That summer, as […]
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Let’s celebrate as the Hall of Fame Weekend approaches starting on Friday, July 19, 2024. Congratulations to Adrian Beltre, Joe Mauer, Todd Helton and manager Jim Leyland for being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.