Episode 273 is full of passion as we welcome New York State Baseball Hall of Fame Member, Kevin Graber and Queen of the Grill and Cookbook Author, Paula Stachyra

Paula Stachyra is a barbecue enthusiast, recipe developer, and creator of the popular Instagram account, Queen of the Grill which is beloved for its weekly #WingCrushWednesday posts.  She previously joined us on episode 153 and returns to discuss her new cookbook, The Big Book of Barbecue On Your Pellet Grill.  The book is filled with 200 showstopping recipes for sizzling steaks, succulent wings, wood-fired seafood and so much more.  Go to https://www.instagram.com/queenofthegrill/?hl=en for more information.

We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/

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Ask a pitmaster, an author, and a Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame executive for their thoughts on the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot and you get a rousing, educational, controversial, and entertaining discussion.  Episode 272 features our annual Baseball Hall of Fame discussion for the class of 2025 with pitmaster, Doug Scheiding, author, John Vampatella, and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame executive, Scott Crawford. 

Doug Scheiding, John Vampatella, and Scott Crawford know their baseball and each has their own opinions which you may or may not agree with, but we hope all can agree they are fun to listen to.  When the 2025 voting results are announced we will know who will be enshrined in Cooperstown, but until then the debate continues and Doug, John, and Scott make very good arguments for their chosen candidates.

We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/

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Episode 271 features peace, love, and baseball with Kelsey Burd and what did dad do with My Dad's BBQ's, Danny Wilk, plus a tribute to legendary leadoff hitter, Rickey Henderson

Kelsey Burd is the host and creative force behind the Peace, Love, and Baseball podcast.  This is in addition to her other podcast, Bourbon and Baseball which she co-hosts with Suzy Fulton. Kelsey’s love of performing in musical theatre combined with her passion for baseball makes Peace, Love, and Baseball unique in the various ways she views baseball.  Kelsey is a huge baseball fan, but the team she chooses to love the most is the St. Louis Cardinals.

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

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Episode 270 features barbecue you can’t refuse with The Hogfathers, Mal Schexneider and Scott Dudek and author, Steve Wiegand on The Uncommon Life of Danny O'Connell, plus Jeff and Leonard's brilliant observations.

The Hogfathers BBQ is barbecue you can't refuse and per their website, "was started with brother-in-laws Scott Dudek and Malton Schexneider cooking for their family. Fast and easy burgers and dogs on a gas grill were replaced with low and slow barbecue.  It started out as a backyard hobby on a vertical electric smoker and Weber Kettle, which was quickly replaced by a Traeger and then upgraded to an Outlaw BFO.  As their skills grew and demand for their cooking increased, they honed their craft by entering the world of barbecue competition.  Go to https://thehogfathersbbq.com/ for more information.

Steve Wiegand is an award-winning journalist and history writer. His 35-year journalism career was spent at the San Diego Evening Tribune, where he was chief political writer; San Francisco Chronicle, where he was state capitol bureau chief, and Sacramento Bee, where he was a special projects writer and politics columnist. Steve is the author or co-author of 10 books, includng his latest, The Uncommon Life of Danny O'Connell which explores the life of Danny O'Connell, a player often overlooked, but who played a part of baseball history and had an ordinary, but special career.

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

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Episode 269 features former Major League Baseball pitcher, Bill Pulsipher, telling his story to help others, Bubb'n Mutha's founder, John Fuhrman dishing out barbecue and baseball talk, Leonard rants, and we celebrate our show's seven year anniversary.

Bill Pulsipher is one third of what New York Mets fans once knew as "Generation K."  It was a moniker he shared with his two other teammates, Jason Isringhausen and Paul Wilson.  The media dubbed them as the members and the fans, desperate for players to help their team, bought into the hype.  The amount of pressure this placed on Bill and the other two Generation K members was extreme and Bill tells all, including a career derailed by injuries and severe depression.  Bill spent parts of six Major League Baseball seasons with the New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and St. Louis Cardinals.  We tend to put these talented athletes on pedestals and revere them as heroes, but pulling back the curtain reveals they are as human as everyone else and, after listening to Bill's story you may have a new appreciation for what some of them deal with.

John Fuhrman is the founder of Bubb'n Mutha's which manufactures premium spice rub blends.  After serving in the United States Navy, John, worked in the auto industry and ended up in North Carolina.  While there he fell in love with barbecue and learned how to cook it and experimented with different spices and rubs.  John returned to Maine and started this company, making his products with special real Maine ingredients like organic blueberry powder, maple crystals and even Raye’s Mustard which is the oldest mustard company in America. John loves baseball and barbecue and we delve deeply into both topics.  For more information on John or to order his products go to https://www.bubnmuthas.com

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

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Episode 268 features a candid interview with Greg Rempe, host of the BBQ Central Show and we explore 3,000: Baseball's Elite Clubs for Hits and Strikeouts with Author, Douglas J. Jordan, plus we discuss the possibility of the Golden At-Bat Rule

Greg Rempe is the creator and host of the longest running and most listened to show dealing with live fire cooking, The BBQ Central Show.  He has been extremely supportive of our show with advice, support, and encouragement.  We wanted Greg back to learn more about him, his show, what it takes to produce a successful podcast, his opinions on barbecue and baseball and much more.  His show can be heard live every Tuesday night from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm and is released in podcast format; the first hour on Wednesday and the second hour on Thursday.  Then on Fridays you can catch up on parts of past episodes listening to The Best Moments of The BBQ Central Show in 10 Minutes or Less.  You can find out more about his show by going to http://thebbqcentralshow.com/

Douglas J. Jordan is a retired college professor.  His baseball articles have been published in the Baseball Research Journal and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.  He joins us to discuss his newest book, 3,000: Baseball's Elite Clubs for Hits and Strikeouts.  This book goes into detail about the elite players in each category, describing how they collected their historic hit or strikeout and their age at the time. Discover the pitchers who gave up a 3,000th hit and the victims of a 3,000th strikeout. This book covers the near-miss men, the ones who almost made it to the milestone, and predicts which players might reach 3,000 hits or strikeouts next. This comprehensive volume tracks all players who have reached this impressive achievement, all who missed it by a hair, and some who might be poised to claim the title.

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

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Episode 267 features Chef Ray Sheehan presenting his Annual Holiday Gift Giving Guide and Author, Lynn Ames discussing her award-winning biography, Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story

Ray Sheehan also known as Chef Ray is an award winning maker of barbecue sauces and rubs as well as an award winning cookbook author.  We continue with our yearly tradition as he presents his annual holiday gift giving guide.  Links for the gift guide follow:

Lynn Ames is the author of the award-winning biography, Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story. It is a wonderful tribute to her friend Dot Wilkinson who was an exceptional athlete, excelling in softball and bowling and a member of both of those sports Hall of Fame's in addition to being a member of the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.  Lynn has won many awards, including a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Gold Medal, six Goldie awards, the Ann Bannon Popular Fiction Award, the Alice B. Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the Arizona Book Award.  She is also a former press secretary to the New York state senate minority leader and spokesperson for the nation’s third-largest prison system. For more than half a decade, she was an award-winning broadcast journalist.

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

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Episode 266 features Brett Mandel, co-founder of Baseballbbq.com and Keith O'Brien, author of Charlie Hustle. Plus we discuss two Major League teams who will be playing on minor league fields.

Brett Mandel from the company, Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com/ is back to apprise us on the great things the company is doing and remind us of all their terrific products.  Anyone who loves baseball and barbecue will thoroughly enjoy the wide range of grilling tools and accessories they offer.  It's an extensive list, but includes spatula's, forks, grill scrapers, pigtail hooks, bottle openers, and tongs which are all made using baseball bat handles which can all be personally engraved.  In addition, they have cutting boards shaped liked home plate or shaped like baseball jerseys which also can be engraved.  Their newest product is a bat rack, designed to hold their baseball bat handle tools which also may be custom engraved.  As if that was not enough, they also have rubs, sauces, tee-shirts, and a unique board game.  Go to https://baseballbbq.com/ for more information. 

Keith O'Brien is a New York Times best-selling author, a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and an award-winning journalist.  He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico, as well as having his stories appear on National Public Radio and This American Life.  His latest book, a must read for baseball history lovers, is Charlie Hustle:  The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball.  Mention Pete Rose and a debate is almost guaranteed to ensue as baseball fans all seem to have opinions on whether he should be in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  This book does a great job at pulling back the curtain on one of the games most polarizing figures.

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/

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Episode 265 features fireballing former MLB Pitcher, Jim Kern and Trompo King inventor, Noam Weiss treating us to  amazing stories and we have a New York State Baseball Hall of Fame Dinner Report

Jim Kern is a former professional baseball pitcher.  With three All-Star appearances from 1977-1979, Kern went went 13–5 with a 1.57 ERA and 29 saves out of the Texas Rangers bullpen in 1979 to finish fourth in American League Cy Young Award balloting.  Over a 12 year Major League career, Jim played for the Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, and Milwaukee Brewers.  Jim is aptly nicknamed Emu and he explains why that moniker fits so well.  In 2013, FanGraphs named Kern as the best relief pitcher in baseball history over a given 4-year period of time in their January 25 article "Jim Kern's Four Incredible Seasons."  From 1976 to 1979, he won 42 games and registered 75 saves out of the bullpen, and he averaged more than 100 innings per year and 1.88 innings pitched per game appearance.        

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/

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Episode 264 features Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Director of Operations, Scott Crawford and Charcoal and BBQ owners, Jason and Paula Mathews

Scott Crawford is the Director of Operations for the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum located in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada.  Scott provides a wonderful description of Canada's Baseball Hall of Fame including how it got started, the way inductees are chosen, and stories about some of its honorees.  Baseball has thrived and continues to do so in Canada and the museum is dedicated to preserving its heritage.  You may be surprised to learn how long Canadian's have played baseball as well as hearing about Jackie Robinson's time playing there.  Go to https://baseballhalloffame.ca/ for more information on Scott Crawford and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Jason and Paula Mathews are the husband and wife owners of the company, Charcoal and BBQ.  The company provides products designed for those who enjoy cooking, but even more for the people who love to barbecue.  Their items include knives, cutting boards, and various accessories which are meant to help your outdoor cooking experience.  They offer engraving which adds a level of personalization to their barbecue wares.  Barbecue has always been a passion in Jason's life and a love of Paula's and they are using that passion and love as a driving force while growing the company.  Their story is fascinating, including Jason's long family history in Texas.  Go to https://charcoalandbbq.com/

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/

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