2016 Harry Caray Re-broadcast

Holy Cow!

We conclude our 6 podcast series on baseball’s greatest sportscasters with Harry Caray (1914 – 1998).  Caray broadcast Major League Baseball for 53 years. Ed, Farley & Mark review the 2006 PBS documentary, Kokoyakyu – High School Baseball.  Then it’s time for baseball’s greatest showman.  Ed interviews author and former presidential speech writer, Curt Smith about Caray and his legacy.  We then listen as Caray sings Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the first night game at Wrigley Field, August 8, 1988.

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2016 Tampa Bay Rays

Tampa & St. Petersburg are beautiful as we talk about the Rays and Mark’s trip to Finland.  Ed interviews Kathleen Newer from toursbylocals.com about things to do while in Tampa and Steve Kinsella from sportstalkflorida.com about this year’s Rays.

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2016 Minicast – BWP Bats

Ed Kasputis interviews Mike Gregory from BWP Bats about the great custom baseball bats that his company makes in Northwest Pennsylvania.

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2016 Pittsburgh Pirates

Are the Pirates contenders or pretenders?  We debate as our PhD Committee enjoys the Steel City.  Ed interviews Joe Connor aka Mr. Sports Travel about all the great things to do in Western Pennsylvania.

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60 Days of Baseball

Ed & Dave interview Canadian Chris Lapointe about his 60 day U.S. baseball road trip.

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2016 New York Yankees

A-Rod has left the building as we talk about the Big Apple and the Evil Empire.  Ed Kasputis interviews  Andrew Mearns from pinstripealley.com and Peg Zitko from libertyellisfoundation.org.  Go Yankees!!!

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2016 Ernie Harwell Re-broadcast

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 World.  Ed Kasputis then interviews baseball author, Irwin J. Cohen about his friend, Ernie Harwell. The podcast concludes with At the Mixer with Marty Allen as Marty relives his most memorable day in radio – Sunday, October 26, 1997 as our PhD Committee gets ready for our next podcast featuring sportscaster great, Mel Allen.

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2016 Seattle Mariners

We are in the Great Northwest as Mark comes home from Ireland.  Ed Kasputis interviews Ted Huetter from the Museum of Flight and Matt Ellis from lookoutlanding.com.  The podcast concludes as Farley helps close it out and keeps his streak alive for never missing a Baseball PhD podcast  (357 and counting!).

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2016 Moe Berg Re-broadcast

The Catcher Who Was a Spy

This week we honor the man who inspired the creation of Baseball PhD – Moe Berg (1902 – 1972).  Moe Berg got his PhD in life – through baseball.  Berg spoke 12 languages travelled the world, played in the major leagues and served as America’s foremost atomic spy during World War II.  Berg knew about the existence of America’s atomic bomb before President Truman!  Discover his story as Ralph Berger, Louis Jacobson, Chuck Brodsky, Linda McCarthy and our PhD Committee remember Moe Berg.

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