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 Houston Astros 06/29/2025

2025 Houston Astros Everybody’s hurt and the Astros are in first place. How? Ed Kasputis interviews William Metzger from crawfishboxes.com about this tremendous feat. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/37207330

2025 Minicast – Pluto on Weaver 06/26/2025

2025 Minicast – Pluto on Weaver Ed Kasputis interviews Cleveland Plain Dealer sports columnist Terry Pluto about Earl Weaver. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/20842220

2025 Texas Rangers 06/22/2025

2025 Texas Rangers What is the identity of the Rangers? Are they bad or are they good? We debate as Ed Kasputis interviews West Jones from justbaseball.com. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/37103325

2025 Camden Yards 06/19/2025

2025 Camden Yards Ed Kasputis interviews Mr. Sports Travel aka Joe Connor about beautiful Oriole Park at Camden Yards. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/37066175

2025 St. Louis Cardinals 06/15/2025

2025 St. Louis Cardinals Ed’s back from St. Louis where he enjoyed watching the Cardinals and exploring Ballpark Village as he interviews Heather Simon from vivaelbirdos.com about this year’s team. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/37014900

Cincinnati Soul 06/12/2025

Cincinnati Soul Ed interviews Al Lautenslager, author of the just released book, Cincinnati Soul – An In-Depth Review of the Cincinnati Tigers, the Cincinnati Cuban Stars, and Other Negro League Baseball in Cincinnati. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36965230

2025 Arizona Diamondbacks 06/08/2025

2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Will Chase Field get renovated? Will the Dbacks get back to their World Series form? Ed Kasputis interviews Jim McLennan from azsnakepit.com to get the scoop. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36904410

2025 Ernie Banks Minicast 06/05/2025

2025 Ernie Banks Minicast In 2016, as the Cubs prepared for the National League Championship Series, our PhD Committee remembered baseball’s greatest ambassador and Hall of Fame great, Ernie Banks who passed away on January 23, 2015. Let’s play two. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/20040056

Athletics 06/01/2025

Athletics Last week, Ed headed to Sacramento with our 2024 Public Servant of the Year, the Honorable Louis Schiff to see the Athletics at Sutter Health Park. Ed and Lou report back on their road trip and impressions of Sacramento. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36804985

2025 Minicast – Carl Mays 05/29/2025

2025 Minicast – Carl Mays Let’s learn about Carl Mays who pitched for the Yankees in the 1920’s and artist Gary Cieradkowski who creates beautiful baseball art a century later. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36765640

2025 Toronto Blue Jays 05/25/2025

2025 Toronto Blue Jays Happy Memorial Day. The Blue Jays are hoovering around .500 and waiting to get hot. When will that happen? Ed Kasputis interviews Tom Dakers from bluebirdbanter.com about the Jays, Alberta succession and his love for government run health care. O Canada. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36703000

2025 Ten Innings at Wrigley 05/22/2025

2025 Ten Innings at Wrigley May 17, 1979. Ten Innings at Wrigley is Kevin Cook’s vivid account of a game that could only have happened at this ballpark, in this era, with this colorful cast of heroes and heels. Ed Kasputis interviews Kevin about his riveting book. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/20686556

2025 Detroit Tigers 05/18/2025

2025 Detroit Tigers Right now, the Tigers are the best team in baseball. Can they keep it up? We debate the Tigers and whether Pete Rose should be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36612660

2025 The Grind 05/15/2025

2025 The Grind Ed Kasputis interviews author and national baseball writer at the Washington Post, Barry Svrluga about his newly released book, The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/20888702

2025 San Francisco Giants 05/11/2025

2025 San Francisco Giants So far the Giants are playing like a great girlfriend, exceeding expectations. Ed Kasputis interviews Connor Grossman from GiantsPostcards.com about their surprising start. /episode/index/show/baseballphd/id/36521920

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

Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

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