September 27, 2025

Leslie Roark Scott, the Barbeque Princess Shares Her Family's Deep-rooted BBQ History and Jim Leeke is the Author of Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano

1 hour 48 minutes

Episode 310 features The Barbeque Princess, Leslie Roark Scott who is from a family with an important deep-rooted barbecue history and Jim Leeke the author of Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano

Leslie Roark Scott is known as The Barbeque Princess. She is the owner and pitmaster of Ubons Restaurant in Yazoo City, MS, and is the chief pitmaster of Ubons Competition BBQ Team. Leslie was a featured chef at the James Beard House and she and her crew can be seen on the Food Network shows Chopped, SmokeMasters, Beat Bobby Flay, BBQ USA, as well as BBQ Pitmasters and Smoked. The Ubons competition team has won titles across the country including the Houston Live Stock and Rodeo BBQ, Memphis in May, and The Jack Daniels World Championships.

Jim Leeke is a journalist, copywriter, and author. His latest book is Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano. Big Loosh is the biography of Ron Luciano, an outsized figure who was a Major League Baseball umpire in the 1970s, worked in broadcasting, published five books, and became a personality off the field—yet whose upbeat public face was at odds with his private struggle with depression. Jim is a winner of the SABR Larry Ritter award for his book, From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball During the Great War.

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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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