Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

We celebrate the birth of Jesus as well as a great 2025 MLB Season (if you are a Dodgers fan).

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

Ed Kasputis interviews Robert K. Fitts about his new book, Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan.

Ed Kasputis interviews Jonathan Eig about his best selling book – Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig.

Ed Kasputis interviews baseball researcher, John Burbridge about the 1954 World Champion New York Giants.

Next to Cincinnati‘s Great American Ballpark is the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.  Ed Kasputis interviews Paul Bernish about this must see museum.

Eight Men Out is a 1988 American baseball classic movie that depicts the 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal.  In our first minicast (a short podcast), Ed Kasputis and baseball researcher, Jim Nitz review this must see movie.  Say it ain’t so Joe.

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

Two Guardian pitchers have been Federally indicted for gambling. We discuss and ponder. Is gambling baseball’s original sin? Will the freedom to gamble harm the game we love forever?

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.