2024 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.

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2024 Hall of Fame Ballot Review

Beltre’, Helton & Mauer, these three great players just got elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. We admire as Ed interviews the Honorable Louis Schiff about the upcoming Caribbean World Series that will take place in Miami.

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2024 Fan’s-Eye View of the Baseball Hall of Fame

With the 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony cancelled due to COVID-19, let’s go back to 2016 as Ed Kasputis interviews Matt Sullivan, co-author of A Fan’s-Eye View of the Baseball Hall of Fame: A Critique of Baseball’s Greatest Institution.

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Lady in Blue

It’s January as hundreds of men and women head to umpire school as they chase their dream to become a professional baseball umpire. Ed Kasputis interviews the one and only, Perry Lee Barber who has been a female baseball umpire since 1981.

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2024 Minicast – The Great Eight

Let’s go back to 1975 and remember The Great Eight from the Big Red Machine as Ed Kasputis interviews baseball researcher and editor, Mark Armour.

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2024 Minicast – First Year Owner

In 2013, Ed Kasputis interviewed first year owner, Ken Babby of the Akron RubberDucks about what he learned during his first year of owning the Cleveland Indians AA affiliate.

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2024 Minicast – First Year Manager

In 2013, Ed Kasputis and Dave Matejczyk interviewed baseball’s youngest professional manager, 29 year old Drew Saylor about what he learned as the first year manager for the short-season Class A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, the Tri-City Dust Devils.

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2024 Hall of Fame Ballot

The vote is over. The results will be announced on January 23, 2024. Has any player been elected this year to the Baseball Hall of Fame? We debate.

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2024 Minicast – Say it ain’t so, Pete Rose

Let’s go back to 2017 when our PhD Committee discussed the allegations that Pete Rose had an affair with a 16 year old girl in the Cincinnati area in the 1970’s.  Is this the final straw that keeps “Charlie Hustle” from the Hall of Fame?  Rich Baxter from Phillies Talk Radio interviews Ed Kasputis about this topic.

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