Baseball Journeys

Join the Bell Boys for their annual season preview show where brotherly banter and bold predictions are made. Scott introduces modern technology to his prognostications and Brad's special guest brings a younger perspective to the show. The show opens with a time of reflection of players from our fandom days who have recently passed and includes an insightful discussion on this year's MLB rule chan...

A random Facebook post of the San Francisco Giants former Spring Training haunts in Casa Grande, AZ leads to a great episode of Baseball Journeys. Listen in as we meet former Giants farmhand Gary Ledbetter talks about meeting legends Mays, McCovey and Marichal at the very beginning of his stint as a pro ballplayer. Though his minor league tenure was short, Gary's love of the game never wavered and...

The son of Greek immigrants, John Scolinos was a legendary Southern California college baseball coach for 43 years. His Cal-Poly Pomona teams won three NCAA Division II College World Series titles. He is a 2020 inductee to the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Coach Scolinos' nephew Mike Scolinos, a member of the 1983 championship team and a long-time college coach who has forged his own legacy in th...

A not too timely but quite spirited discussion about the 2025 MLB Post-Season which unabashedly highlights the incredible run to the championship by the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Baseball Journeys is quite ecumenical in most of its episodes, the So Cal based Bell Boys are and always will be Dodgers fans no matter where they are. In this episode the whole band is back with the addition of other fa...

Fewer than 150 players in the history of major league baseball have won three World Series rings, Dick Tracewski is one of them. He added a fourth as a coach for the 1984 champion Detroit Tigers. "Trixie" won titles with the Dodgers in 1963 and 1965 and with the 1968 Tigers. From a coal mining town in the hills of Pennsylvania, to the bright lights of the iconic Dodger and Tiger Stadiums, Dick sha...

Local journalist Joe Blackstock shares the stories he has chronicled of "long gone" baseball journeys while recalling his coverage of Fernando Valenzuela's epic 1981 World Series win and fondly recalls his favorite player of all-time, a Southern Californa Ruthian legend who lives on as long as Joe (nd others) remembers his name.

Listen in with Doug Kurkul the author of "It's a Beautiful Day For Baseball - The National Pastime in the 1960's." Doug provides an insightful glimpse of the last decade in which baseball was in fact, the National Pastime. His book chronicles the baseball journeys of 250 players during that era. From super stars to one-game wonders. Doug's and the Bell Boys baseball paths crossed through the 1967...

Think you know Dave Roberts? Guess again, the San Diego Padres made this Dave Roberts the first draft pick in the nation in 1972, a "one/one' in baseball parlance. He was drafted, signed and in a major league game on the same day! Dave played more than 10 years in the majors with or against many of the stars from the 1970's, including his idol Henry Aaron. Listen in as Dave shares about his career...

The Bell Boys are baseball fans first, then loyal Dodger fans. Needless to say 2024 ended well for LA and the Boys are back with an unplugged post season session to put a big blue bow on things...and to collect some Whoppers from big brother Scott whose sensible World Series prediction came up against a battle-tested team that simply would not be denied. 

Hot off the press! Join the Bell Boys for a fast-paced jam session highlighting the 2024 season, road trips, ball park jobs and more, including real-time prognostications as we head into the League Championshiip Series. Recorded an hour before the start of the Dodgers - Mets series.

Baseball Journeys welcomes its first female guest, Adrianna Brown. Brown coached the Etiwanda Eagles High School softball team to the 2024 Califorina State Division 3 Regional Championship. The Eagles went 31-5, which included an 8-0 playoff run to close out the season as state champs. Listen in as Adrianna recounts her journey in the game which has lead her to a dream job, doing what she loves ri...

In 1966 Larry Jaster was a promising 22-year old rookie left-hander for the St. Louis Cardinals. Listen in as Larry shares his amazing baseball journey that took him from the sandlots of Michigan, to a World Series championship, then on to a quarter century tenure as a minor league pitching coach. Along the way he competed against, played with and coached a long list of star players, including sev...

John Werhas' baseball journey took him from cleaning the bleachers as a kid in Detrot to the sandlots of San Pedro, CA , to a national championship at USC and the opening day third-baseman of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1964. He would play 14 years of professional baseball...most of it in Triple A Spokane and Hawaii, with a brief stop in Japan. Trouble with the slider limited his success at the maj...

Enjoy Part 2 of the interview and reunion of high school teammates Lance Parrish and Dave Berry. Lance recounts the historic 1984 World Championship season in Detroit and his encounter with the brutal business side of baseball during the days of colusion against free agency. He and Dave also share about their common faith and family values. A bonus segment with Dave describes an incredible teenage...

Mike reunites high school friends over 50 years after they played baseball together in the Southern Califorina of Walnut . Dave Berry went on to a successful career in the fire service. Lance Parrish was a number one draft pick of the Detroit Tigers and parlayed that into a 19-year Major League career that included eight all-star appearances, six SIlver Sluggers and a World Series Championship in...

One of the oldest living major leaguers chronicles his life in baseball in this episode. Don Ferrarese, a little left-hander with a huge heart and a wild and wicked curve carved out an impressive and inspiring career from his highschool all-star days in post-war Northern California to a ninth-inning show down with Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium in 1956. The 94-year old Ferrarese recalls a life in...

The Bells Boys reconvene to settle a World Series whopper wager and discuss the Dodgers decision to deliver a DH in the diamond deal of the decade. A short session on Shohei to be sure.

The Bell Boys reunite for a "real-time" discussion of the post season and a recap of the 2023 regular season. Analysis, predictions and minor pontificating highlight this unique episode of Baseball Journeys as the brothers and Brad all come together for the first time this year to talk baseball. Find how who will win the high stakes World Series "Whoppers" wager and where the Boys believe Shohei O...

Baseball Journeys returns from a brief hiatus as Uncle Mike interviews longtime family friend Ryan Marks, a 28-year old baseball protege whose love of the game has been developed from a close family of lifetime Yankee fans, to an Ivy League career on the hallowed grounds of Lou Gehrig's alma mater to the offices of the Southern California corporate baseball world. This is a young man with an old b...

Mike and Scott conclude their conversation with the Reed family, brothers Jeremy and Mark and their dad Dennie. The Reeds make the transition from professional baseball players to Major and Minor League coaches. Along the way they find a passion for investing in others and work along side some of the greatest players managers and coaches in the game while never losing their strong family values an...

Meet the Reed Family. The Bell Boys finally catch up with their life-long friends who share their baseball journey in the first of a two-part series. Jeremy and Mark Reed have made a career of professional baseball as players and coaches in the minor and major leagues. Their bond with their older brother and parents runs far deeper than the brickdust of a ballfield. Throughout the roller coaster r...

Rejoin the Bell Boys as they complete a two part interview with Andy Strasberg who realized a lifelong dream of working in Major League Baseball. Andy continues his special relationship with Roger Maris and his family and embarks on a long career in baseball that left a lasting impact on how we all experience the game.

Meet Andy Strasberg, a Bronx-born baseball fan who, in the early 1960's bucked the Mickey Mantle band wagon for his lesser known teammate Roger Maris which led to a lifelong friendship with the quiet home-run hitter and his family. Andy has told this and many other great stories from his life in baseball at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and many other venues across the country.

Author Brad Balukjian joins the Bell Boys to discuss his baseball journey tracking down the players he found in a single pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, including his all-time favorite, Phillies left-hander Don Carman. A college professor by trade, Brad ventured out in the summer of 2015 finding and speaking with most of the players in his pack of cards. He chronicled the adventure in the book,...

Join Baseball Journeys for Part two of Chad Zerbe's amazing career as he ascends the minor league ranks for the San Francisco Giants just time to be part of the 2002 World Series team where he not only gets into three games but comes away with a Game 5 victory. A very special guest joins Chad as he recounts his time with Dusty Baker's Giants.