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San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock, and a Third-Place Baseball Team with Lincoln Mitchell Special Ro...View Details
Sep 3rd, 2019
War in the Ring with John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro -- and special Roundtable Guest: Mitch Nathanson. A wide-ranging conversation touching on a behind-the-scenes look at the writin...
Doc, Donnie, The Kid, and Billy Brawl with author Chris Donnelly and special Roundtable Guest: Tony Denera. We discussed Major League baseball in 1980s New York, Gary Carter, Don B...
Nov 10th, 2017
Inside the tailgating, ticket-scalping, mascot-racing, dubiously funded, and possibly haunted monuments of American sport "For one year, I traveled the United States visiting sport...
Jul 28th, 2017
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, tucked away in upstate New York in a small town called Cooperstown, is far from any major media market or big league stadium. Yet no...
Jun 26th, 2017
The untold story behind the first great sports film... The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig...
Jun 16th, 2017
A franchise and fan base in perpetual search of validation finally had its ticket punched as 2016 dawned. Mike Piazza, who held records in one hand and a city's rapt attention in ...
Jun 10th, 2017
"Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey" tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male ...
Jun 2nd, 2017
Baseball in the 1920's is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankees player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Sh...
A Pulitzer Prize-winner returns to the Clubhouse. It Happens Every Spring: DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark -- opinions and reflections on th...
The real Joe DiMaggio -- remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life. Candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and h...
May 8th, 2017
Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where he hit 40 home runs and had 184 RBIs. Even with his success at the plate, neither Greenberg nor the rest of the world could ...
As a player, Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel's contemporaries included Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Christy Mathewson... and he was the only person in history to wear the uniforms...
buck•et list - noun informal - a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime All New York Yankees fans have a bucket lis...
Apr 15th, 2017
"The '60s were a time of conflict, progress, tragedy, triumph, and unforgettable events in the nation and its pastime. One Nation Under Baseball connects the two in revealing an...
Apr 7th, 2017
"Quit praying for me alone, Ma, and pray for the whole team." -Jackie Robinson's letter to his mother in 1947, his rookie season Journalist and baseball lover Ed Henry reveals...
Dec 19th, 2016
"Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound." Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the "asterisk" next to Roger Maris's record. But h...
Dec 5th, 2016
In his shrewd analysis -- Will Big League Baseball Survive? -- Lincoln Mitchell asks whether the sport will continue in its current form as a huge, lucrative global business that...
Nov 12th, 2016
"I just won the Nobel Prize of baseball." -Elston Howard, American League MVP, 1963 Snubs. Grudges. Conspiracies. Incompetence. All in a day's work for some of those who vo...
“This is a tough park for a hitter when the air conditioning is blowing in.” -Bob Boone When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome -- nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World ...
