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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2025 Ten Innings at Wrigley

May 17, 1979.  Ten Innings at Wrigley is Kevin Cook’s vivid account of a game that could only have happened at this ballpark, in this era, with this colorful cast of heroes and heels.  Ed Kasputis interviews Kevin about his riveting book.

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2025 Baseball Talk Radio

Let’s remember Baseball Talk Radio’s first live podcast with Rich Baxter, Gary Mack and Ed Kasputis as we prepared for Game 6 of the 2016 National League Championship Series.  Will it be the Dodgers or the Cubs headed to Cleveland for the 112th edition of the Fall Classic?

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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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Tokyo Series

Let’s cross the Pacific for opening day at the Tokyo Series as Ed Kasputis interviews Shane Barclay from JapanBall.com and Matt Moreno from DodgerBlue.com.

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2025 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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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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2024 Minicast – The Original Curse

Let’s go back over 100 years to the only World Series played in September, the 1918 World Series.  Did the Chicago Cubs throw the 1918 World Series to the Boston Red Sox?  Did this act curse both the Cubs and Red Sox organizations for decades to come?  Ed Kasputis interviews Sporting News writer and author, Sean Deveney about his intriguing book, The Original Curse.

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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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2023 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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