Go Go White Sox

The Pope loves the White Sox (and everyone else) but can the White Sox turn things around? Ed Kasputis interviews Kurt Smith from ballparkeguides.com about Rate Field.

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2026 Summer of ’68

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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Shoeless Joe Jackson

Let’s remember the man with the fourth highest batting average (.356) in Major League Baseball History as Ed Kasputis interviews Dan Wallach from shoelesspodcast.com.

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2025 Minicast – Eight Men Out

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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2025 Minicast – George Will

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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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.

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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.

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2024 Summer of ’68

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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2024 Chicago White Sox

The White Sox have the worst record in the American League with dreams of a new ballpark, creating Chicago’s 78th neighborhood. What really lies ahead? Ed Kasputis interviews Al Yellon from bleedcubbieblue.com about the proposed ballpark.

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Minicast – Kid Gleason

Happy New Year as we launch Season 15 of Baseball PhD. Who was Kid Gleason? Let’s learn together as Ed Kasputis interviews baseball renaissance man, Dirk Baker.

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