2026 Presidents & Baseball

As America prepared for the start of the 2016 Presidential Primary Season, our PhD Committee explored Presidents & Baseball and paid homage to Jonathan the Tortoise, who is older than the game of baseball.

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Curt Smith remembers Red Barber

Curt Smith

Our next podcast featuring sportscaster great, Red Barber will be released on Friday, January 14th. We are excited to have Curt Smith as our featured guest for this podcast.

“No one in America has studied the great baseball sportscasters like Curt Smith,” said Ed Kasputis, Creative Director of Baseball PhD.  “Curt Smith‘s exhaustive research on Red Barber is second to none. Our next podcast will have 28 minutes of his wisdom about Red Barber.”

Smith has written many books on baseball sportscasters.  Smith is also a professor at the University of Rochester, an NPR radio host and former Presidential speech writer for President George H.W. Bush.

Mel Allen and Red Barber on the 1947 World Series

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1948 Giants vs. Cubs TV intro (when smoking at the ballpark was legal)

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