Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

Ed Kasputis interviews baseball historian and children’s author, Dan Gutman about his book, Roberto & Me.

Ed Kasputis interviews Larry Ruttman about his book, American Jews & America’s Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball.

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

As MLB labor strife continues, let’s go to a land where baseball is well. Fly me to Japan as Ed Kasputis interviews Trevor Raichura from Japanball.com.

In 2012, Ed Kasputis visited St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo to retrace the steps of Catcher and OSS spy, Moe Berg who visited the hospital on November 29, 1934 and shot video of the Tokyo skyline.  Later during World War II, Berg shared this video with the U.S. Government.  Kasputis interviews Kaoru Oda and Sumio […]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Everyone likes to travel. Ed Kasputis interviews Joe Noga from cleveland.com about his article proposing that Major League Baseball play more games at non-traditional locations.

Ed Kasputis interviews Andre Lower about the baseball movie, Fantasyland and Andre’s web site, baseballbypostions.com.

We explore the collective bargaining issues of revenue sharing and tanking as MLB labor negotiations continue. Our PhD Committee interviews sport journalist Kevin Kernan from ballnine.com about the state of Major League Baseball.

As we prepare for Episode 600 let’s remember Episode 100 from the 100th floor of the Empire State Building! Our PhD Committee goes down memory lane as we remember our first 100 podcasts.  Thanks for listening and let’s continue to get our PhD in life through baseball.

We’re Rockin’ in the Free World as we celebrate the election of David Ortiz into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and ponder the fate of the rest, including Curt Schilling. Louis H. Schiff, co-author of Baseball and the Law: Cases and Materials joins our conversation to add wisdom and perspective.