Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

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.

Our PhD Committee goes civic, as we honor our 2024 Public Servant of the Year.

Let’s learn about the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball as Mark Rantala interviews Jessie Cole, owner of the Savannah Bananas and Josh Talevsky, broadcaster for the Bananas.

Happy New Year. We celebrate 2024 while we look forward to 2025. Our PhD Committee reviews the strange but true events of 2024 in Major League Baseball.

Merry Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our savior. Our PhD Committee interviews Jeff Cohen from the podcast, Baseball and BBQ about the Mets signing Juan Soto who they believe might the savior for their organization. Time will tell.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred floated the idea of the Golden At-Bat. We debate as we bask in President Trump’s re-election. Was 2024 Trump’s Golden At-Bat?

Ed Kasputis interviews baseball researcher, James D. Smith III about the barehanded catcher, James “Deacon” White (1847-1939) who will be the only player inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 28, 2013.

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 […]

Ed Kasputis interviews G. Michael Green about his book, Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman.

From Tokyo, Ed Kasputis interviews Marty Kuehnert, Senior Advisor to the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles about his 40+ year career as an American baseball executive in Japan.

Hail to the Los Angeles Dodgers as they win their eighth World Series. Ed Kasputis interviews Matt Moreno from dodgerblue.com about this year’s Fall Classic.

Let’s remember one of the greatest World Series games of all time – Game 6 of the the 2011 World Series.

Dodgers, Yankees, let’s get ready for an epic World Series.

What was the greatest World Series? Ed Kasputis learns as he interviews author, Tim Wendel about his new book, Down to the Last Pitch.

The final four are set, Dodgers, Mets, Guardians and Yankees. Ed Kasputis interviews fellow podcaster, Jeff Cohen from Baseball and BBQ podcast about what it means for both New York teams to still be in the playoffs.

Ed Kasputis interviews Emmy Award winning Producer Robert Steinfeld about his new book, 3… 2… 1… We’re on the Air. Imagine what it’s like to make hundreds of decisions in just two hours on “live” network television with your work seen by millions of people. That’s what Steinfeld has been doing for decades.

There are 8 teams left with the 4 underdogs advancing through the Wild Card Series. We try to make sense of it. OMG.

The postseason has begun with the Tigers, Royals and Mets winning on day 1. We preview the Wild Card round and reminisce our road trip for the A’s last game in Oakland.

Our PhD Committee gets ready to fly West to see the last game at the Oakland Coliseum as the Athletics say good bye.

The Big Red Machine ain’t what is used to be but could this year’s Reds be spoilers? Ed Kasputis interviews the one and only, Mo Egger from ESPN 1530 in Cincinnati to find out.