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
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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
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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
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Our PhD Committee examines and celebrates the comedians who love baseball through their unforgettable skits.
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2024 Minicast – James “Deacon” White
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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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2024 Minicast – Charles O. Finley
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Ed Kasputis interviews G. Michael Green about his book, Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman.
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2024 Minicast – Marty Kuehnert
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From Tokyo, Ed Kasputis interviews Marty Kuehnert, Senior Advisor to the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles about his 40+ year career as an American baseball executive in Japan.
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2024 World Series Review
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Hail to the Los Angeles Dodgers as they win their eighth World Series. Ed Kasputis interviews Matt Moreno from dodgerblue.com about this year’s Fall Classic.
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The Big Red Machine ain’t what is used to be but could this year’s Reds be spoilers? Ed Kasputis interviews the one and only, Mo Egger from ESPN 1530 in Cincinnati to find out.