The pod returns with an interview with New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski! Joe tells Stuart about his baseball journey, the similarities with soccer, and his books The Baseball 100 and Why We Love Baseball - which is out now in the UK!

Joe will be travelling to the London Series this weekend, and you can meet him at Waterstones Trafalgar Square on Friday 7th June at 5pm for a signing!

Joe also joins Kelley Franco for a pre-game special event on Saturday at noon, at Riverside East Bar in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to discuss the Mets v Phillies rivalry!

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Stuart Levy (podcast host!) was mistakenly tagged in a tweet last week congratulating him on his baseball career! A quick search found the other Stuart Levy, who agreed to join the podcast to discuss all aspects of his career! Stuart tells Stuart all about high school, the draft, Spring Training, life in the independent leagues and much, much more!

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Chad Morrissey has experienced it all as a Royals fan! From being a kid as his parents went out to watch the Royals in the World Series, to being a long-suffering fan in one of the one of the longest postseason droughts during baseball's current wild-card era, Chad has seen it all!

Hear him describe his joy as that play-off drought finally ended in the hot-streak of 2014, to his jubilation at being crowned World Champions the following year - and how he is still having plenty of fun taking his kids now and his enthusiasm and optimisim for the current team.

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John has had an interest in baseball through his dad since before he could walk - in his first baseball game, he fell asleep in his puschair at an Angels game!

Eventually, through playing games and fortunate business trips, the Cubs became his team, and he has experienced the very highs and the very lows of the sport!

His love of baseball led him into a great career in sport, and his curiosity into why that might be - and if others have the same thought - has inspired his masters dissertation idea. If you also watch baseball at least once per week, on either side of the Atlantic, give him an email!

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Alan and his friends have always been fans of groundhopping - making frequent trips around the world watching their favourite sports! Here he share his baseball story, how he became a Tigers fan, his memories of the sport and more!

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Jo Lenton - not to be confused with Joelinton! - is a long-suffering Newcastle United fan who has found her sporting home at Citi Field!

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In part 2 of the All-Star Week episode, Charlie introduces Stuart to new concepts such as the All-Star Futures Game, a Celebrity Softball quiz, Home Run Derbies and score predictions.

Can YOU beat Stuart's score in naming the celebrities?

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Charlie Baldwin returns to the podcast to tell Stuart all about the All-Star Game. From the first edition in 1933, through the records and scandals, up until today's voting process, it's a full journey into this special date in the calendar of all baseball fans!

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Iain McArthur is sport and travel mad - he's watched 27 different sports in 12 different countries! - and was the obvious choice to write The Baseball Stadium Guide. He joins the podcast to chat about his experiences writing the book, his adventures in attending some of these stadiums (and many, many others), as well as sharing his favourite moments as a Rays fan!

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Host Stuart already had plans for this weekend so missed the 2023 London Series - Al Galpin, a volunteer at the event, tries to convince him to ditch the stag do he has on the dates of the 2024 Series and to make sure he's there! From getting high 5s from fans of all 30 teams, to walking 25km and getting to his seat just as Cardinal get their only run on the Saturday, Al had a great weekend!

He also shares his baseball journey, from missing out on the chance to see Roger Clemens' 20-strikeout performance to playing for the New Forest Thunder Knights,

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