Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

What would you do if you could get a PhD in life - through baseball? Welcome to Baseball PhD. A podcast for your brain. 30 major league cities, 100 places to see. Let\'s touch them all as we make a road trip of a lifetime!

2025 Baseball Talk Radio 05/08/2025

2025 Baseball Talk Radio Let’s remember Baseball Talk Radio’s first live podcast with Rich Baxter, Gary Mack and Ed Kasputis as we prepared for Game 6 of the 2016 National League Championship Series. Will it be the Dodgers or the Cubs headed to Cleveland for the 112th edition of the Fall Classic? /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/27383088

2025 Washington Nationals 05/04/2025

2025 Washington Nationals Are you Nuts about the Nats? The rebuild continues as they sit in 4th place in the NL East. Ed Kasputis interviews Sam Sallick from federalbaseball.com about the team he loves. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36424565

2025 Kelli’s Pine 05/01/2025

2025 Kelli’s Pine Fatherhood, baseball, romance and family – those are the themes of Kelli’s Pine. We break our mold as Ed Kasputis interviews our first fiction author, Jay Grochowski about his great new book, Kelli’s Pine. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/23085596

2025 New York Yankees 04/27/2025

2025 New York Yankees Can the Yankees repeat as American League Champions? We debate as we interview baseball authors, Louis Schiff and Paul Semendinger. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36325915

2025 Baseball Card Addict 04/24/2025

2025 Baseball Card Addict How many baseball cards did you collect? Do you still have them? Our PhD Committee remembers as Ed Kasputis interviews Tanner Jones about his book, Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/20415638

2025 Milwaukee Brewers 04/20/2025

2025 Milwaukee Brewers Can the Brew Crew repeat and win the NL Central? With lots of injuries to their pitching staff, the Brewers are hanging tough. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36234405

2025 Minicast – Julia Ruth Stevens 04/17/2025

2025 Minicast – Julia Ruth Stevens Let’s learn about the woman who called Babe Ruth “daddy” as author Jerry Amernic interviews Babe Ruth’s daughter, Julia Ruth Stevens who passed away this year at the age of 102. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/22936532

2025 Cleveland Guardians 04/13/2025

2025 Cleveland Guardians Can the Guardians win the AL Central again? Farley tells us about Guardians Opening Day as Ed interviews Joe Noga from cleveland.com about the 2025 team. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36114175

2025 Schilling & Ortiz 04/10/2025

2025 Schilling & Ortiz We’re Rockin’ in the Free World as we celebrate the election of David Ortiz into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and ponder the fate of the rest, including Curt Schilling. Louis H. Schiff, co-author of Baseball and the Law: Cases and Materials joins our conversation to add wisdom and perspective. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/21950846

Chicago, Chicgao 04/06/2025

Chicago, Chicgao We review both the Cubs and White Sox as Farley reports back on his recent trip to the Windy City. Ed interviews Al Yellon from bleedcubbieblue.com and Josh Nelson from soxmachine.com. Cubs first in the NL Central? White Sox last in the American League? We ponder and debate. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36024125

2025 Andy Van Slyke 04/03/2025

2025 Andy Van Slyke Andy Van Slyke played in the Majors for 12 years. He’s got a great web site and a podcast. Ed Kasputis interviews Andy about the game we love. Check out andyvanslyke.com. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/18904718

2025 Colorado Rockies 03/30/2025

2025 Colorado Rockies The Rockies are projected to be the worst MLB team this year. Let’s play 162. Our PhD Committee makes their post season picks as Ed Kasputis interviews Professor Bruce Bukiet from the New Jersey Institute of Technology about his post season predictions using the power of math. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35923160

2025 Madame President 03/27/2025

2025 Madame President In the history of Minor League Baseball there has only been one madame president. Ed Kasputis interviews Lori Webb who has been president of the Southern League since 2012 about her inspirational story. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/17542568

2025 Baltimore Orioles 03/23/2025

2025 Baltimore Orioles In the past three seasons, the Orioles have won 275 games. Can they win another 90+ this year and overtake the aging Yankees? Time will tell. Ed Kasputis interviews Paul Vallee III, the host for the Bat Around for Press Box Sports in Baltimore to find out. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35823855

2025 Minicast – 60 Days of Baseball 03/19/2025

2025 Minicast – 60 Days of Baseball Ed & Dave interview Canadian Chris Lapointe about his 60 day U.S. baseball road trip. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/25877706

Tokyo Series 03/15/2025

Tokyo Series Let’s cross the Pacific for opening day at the Tokyo Series as Ed Kasputis interviews Shane Barclay from JapanBall.com and Matt Moreno from DodgerBlue.com. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35705835

2025 Orlando Cepeda 03/13/2025

2025 Orlando Cepeda Let’s learn about Baseball Hall of Famer, Orlando Cepeda as Ed Kasputis interviews baseball historian, Bruce Markusen. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/18561857

Spring Training 2025 03/09/2025

Spring Training 2025 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35591960

2025 Warren Spahn 03/05/2025

2025 Warren Spahn 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/21832535

The Flip Side of Greatness 03/02/2025

The Flip Side of Greatness 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35498250

2025 Willie McCovey 02/27/2025

2025 Willie McCovey 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.” /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/20572958

Travel Ball 02/23/2025

Travel Ball 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35393245

2025 The Walker Brothers 02/20/2025

2025 The Walker Brothers 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/18280067

Mets Stories 02/16/2025

Mets Stories 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35300900

2025 Minicast – The Last Best League 02/13/2025

2025 Minicast – The Last Best League Ed Kasputis interviews author Jim Collins about his updated book, The Last Best League. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/22862243

2025 Just Like Me 02/09/2025

2025 Just Like Me 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/16723727

2025 Minicast – The Last 42 02/06/2025

2025 Minicast – The Last 42 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/25902108

2025 Hall of Fame Ballot Review 02/02/2025

2025 Hall of Fame Ballot Review 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. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35114480

2025 Minicast – Jews & America’s Game 01/30/2025

2025 Minicast – Jews & America’s Game Ed Kasputis interviews Larry Ruttman about his book, American Jews & America’s Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/22269572

Public Servant of the Year 01/26/2025

Public Servant of the Year Our PhD Committee goes civic, as we honor our 2024 Public Servant of the Year. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/35010940

Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

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