2023 Colorado Rockies
August 6, 2023 by Edward Kasputis
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The Rockies have surprised no one as they have the worst record in the National League. Ed Kasputis interviews the one and only, Paul Francis Sullivan from Locked on MLB podcast about this week’s trade deadline.
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2023 Ernie Banks minicast
June 28, 2023 by Edward Kasputis
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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.
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2023 Chicago White Sox
April 9, 2023 by Edward Kasputis
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Can the White Sox stay healthy and compete in the AL Central? Ed Kasputis interviews Josh Nelson from soxmachine.com about the team he loves.
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2023 War Fever
April 5, 2023 by Edward Kasputis
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Farley’s back in the studio as we interview Professor and co-author, Randy Roberts about his new and timely novel, War Fever: Boston, Baseball and America in the Shadow of the Great War.
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2023 Minicast – George Will
February 1, 2023 by Edward Kasputis
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Our PhD Committee interviews American journalist and author, George Will about his great book, A Nice Little Place On The North Side: Wrigley Field At One Hundred.
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2022 Minicast – Eight Men Out
October 5, 2022 by Edward Kasputis
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Eight Men Out is a 1988 American baseball classic movie that depicts the 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal. In our first minicast (a short podcast), Ed Kasputis and baseball researcher, Jim Nitz review this must see movie. Say it ain’t so Joe.
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2021 War Fever
September 15, 2021 by Edward Kasputis
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Farley’s back in the studio as we interview Professor and co-author, Randy Roberts about his new and timely novel, War Fever: Boston, Baseball and America in the Shadow of the Great War.
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2021 Arizona Diamondbacks
August 29, 2021 by Edward Kasputis
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The Diamondbacks currently have the worst record in the National League. We discuss their struggles and what Major League Baseball’s next collective bargaining agreement needs to fix.
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2021 Ernie Banks minicast
August 4, 2021 by Edward Kasputis
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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.
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2021 Summer of ’68
July 28, 2021 by Edward Kasputis
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Ed Kasputis interviews author, Tim Wendel about his book, Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball – and America – Forever.
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral. That summer, as the pennant races were heating up, the assassination of Robert Kennedy was later followed by rioting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But even as tensions boiled over and violence spilled into the streets, something remarkable was happening in major league ballparks across the country. Pitchers were dominating like never before, and with records falling and shut-outs mounting, many began hailing ’68 as “The Year of the Pitcher.”
Meanwhile in Detroit—which had burned just the summer before during one of the worst riots in American history—’68 instead found the city rallying together behind a colorful Tigers team led by Denny McLain, Mickey Lolich, Willie Horton, and Al Kaline. The Tigers would finish atop the American League, setting themselves on a highly anticipated collision course with Bob Gibson’s Cardinals.
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