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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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2025 Minicast – The Last Best League

Ed Kasputis interviews author Jim Collins about his updated book, The Last Best League.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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