Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

Tampa & St. Petersburg are beautiful as we talk about the Rays and Mark’s trip to Finland.  Ed interviews Kathleen Newer from toursbylocals.com about things to do while in Tampa and Steve Kinsella from sportstalkflorida.com about this year’s Rays.

Ed Kasputis interviews Mike Gregory from BWP Bats about the great custom baseball bats that his company makes in Northwest Pennsylvania.

Are the Pirates contenders or pretenders?  We debate as our PhD Committee enjoys the Steel City.  Ed interviews Joe Connor aka Mr. Sports Travel about all the great things to do in Western Pennsylvania.

Ed & Dave interview Canadian Chris Lapointe about his 60 day U.S. baseball road trip.

A-Rod has left the building as we talk about the Big Apple and the Evil Empire.  Ed Kasputis interviews  Andrew Mearns from pinstripealley.com and Peg Zitko from libertyellisfoundation.org.  Go Yankees!!!

This podcast features baseball sportscaster great, Ernie Harwell.  Our PhD Committee first reviews Major League Baseball’s playoff expansion idea of adding an additional wild card team in each league and then shifts into analyzing who is listening to our podcasts.  Then it’s time for Harwell.  Hear Harwell’s moving 1955 poem – The Definition of Baseball, then hear Harwell’s account of baseball’s Shot Heard ‘Round the […]

We are in the Great Northwest as Mark comes home from Ireland.  Ed Kasputis interviews Ted Huetter from the Museum of Flight and Matt Ellis from lookoutlanding.com.  The podcast concludes as Farley helps close it out and keeps his streak alive for never missing a Baseball PhD podcast  (357 and counting!).

The Sox are in third and could the actions of Chris Sale be absurd?  We enjoy the Second City as Ed Kasputis interviews Chris Wills from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & 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.

The Democrats are in Philadelphia and the Phillies are in 4th.  Our PhD Committee talks about Philadelphia while Ed interviews Joe Connor about things to do in America’s 5th largest city and Rich Baxter from fightinphillies.com about this year’s Phillies.  Farley makes his grand entrance as he arrives from South Carolina at the close of […]