Locked On MLB - Daily Podcast On Major League Baseball

I visited CitiField, the new home of the Mets. It is a monument to the Brooklyn Dodgers and a missed opportunity to honor baseball of the 1960's.

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I visited the Polo Grounds Towers, once the home of the Giants and the epicenter of New York baseball.

Now it is an apartment complex and the baseball palace is right across the river. How did that happen?

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Sam Gazdziak runs the website RIPBaseball.com and the Twitter feed @rip_mlb . He collects information about baseball related graves and writes wonderful obits for obscure players. His site was an invaluable source for my In Memoriam video. He joins the podcast to discuss his unusual preoccupation.

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On May 21, 2016, I talked with Pete Clemente, who witnessed the Joe DiMaggio Yankee years as a rabid fan and then became a semi pro pitcher who was offered a contract by the Pirates. He shared memories and thoughts about his baseball life.

I got word that Pete died today. In his honor, I am replaying this conversation with this kind and generous man.

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The tradition of the Indians name is not as ironclad as you would think. They were almost the Cleveland Raiders, which would have been amazing. Plus I bring up Chief Wahoo again and showed how easy the solution would be for it.

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Will Major League Baseball make it to Nashville? It is a possibility if Dave Dombrowski has any say in the matter. Is Nashville a baseball town? Well in 2018, I attended a Nashville Sounds game. Here are the sounds (no pun intended) and observations I made from that day at the ballpark.

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From the vault... in December of 2016

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Every year I produce a new In Memoriam video for the All Star Game. There is no All Star Game this year but that did not stop me.

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What would have happened if the Moneyball A's had advanced to the 2002 World Series? Would that Brad Pitt film have a happier ending?

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If we want baseball or any other part of our lives to get back to normal, it is important that we work together, no matter what our beliefs are. Brett Chancey of Locked on Astros gave me a gift that accenuates that sentiment.

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