Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

Enjoy our first full video podcast as Ed Kasputis interviews baseball photographer and baseball renaissance woman, Donna Muscarella and AI Farley makes his dancing debut.

Ed Kasputis interviews Sam Zygner about his outstanding book, Baseball Under the Palms: The History of Miami Minor League Baseball – The Early Years, 1892 – 1960 .

What was the greatest World Series?  Ed Kasputis learns as he interviews author, Tim Wendel about his new book, Down to the Last Pitch .

It's January as hundreds of men and women head to umpire school as they chase their dream to become a professional baseball umpire. Ed Kasputis interviews the one and only, Perry Lee Barber who has been a female baseball umpire since 1981 .

Ed Kasputis interviews Emmy Award winning Producer Robert Steinfeld about his new book, 3… 2… 1… We're on the Air . Imagine what it's like to make hundreds of decisions in just two hours on "live" network television with your work seen by millions of people. That's what Steinfeld has been doing for decades.

Holy Cow! We conclude our 6 podcast series on baseball's greatest sportscasters with  Harry Caray  (1914 – 1998).   Caray  broadcast Major League Baseball for 53 years. Ed, Farley & Mark review the 2006 PBS documentary,  Kokoyakyu – High School Baseball .  Then it's time for baseball's greatest showman.  Ed interviews author and former presidential speech writer,  Curt Smith  about  Caray  and his...

Jack Buck  (1924 – 2002) called 11 World Series, 4 Major League All-Star games and 18 Super Bowls.  Ed, Farley and Mark review  Buck 's career and make their Super Bowl predictions in his honor.  Ed interviews author  Curt Smith  about Buck and  Marty Allen  shares his worst day in radio.

Barber hired Vin Scully We honor one of the greatest baseball sportscasters of all time –  Red Barber .  We explore his life and influence.  Ed interviews and thanks Dale Mugford from  Brave New Code  for our new mobile web site.  Ed then interviews author, speech writer and professor,  Curt Smith .  Our podcast concludes as we remember t he Ol' Redhead  and prepare for our next podcast –  Jack Bu...

Things are changing in Venezuela. How will it affect Venezuela baseball? We discuss.

Mordecai Israel was his name Mel Allen  was born in  Birmingham , Alabama and grew up to become the "Voice of the  Yankees ".  Our PhD Committee relives his great life with the help of authors,  Stephen Borelli ,  Stanley Cohen  and  Rob Edelman . Our podcast also talks about  Cliff Lee  returning to the  Phillies  and notable baseball deaths for 2010.  Then it's time for  At the Mixer with Marty...

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...

Greatest Baseball Sportscaster of All Time Our PhD Committee honors Vin Scully (1927 – 2022) as the greatest baseball sportscaster of all time. Ed, Farley and Mark then explore the life of Scully and listen to some of his greatest clips.  Ed then interviews Dodger faithful and English Professor, Frank Ardolino about Scully .  We then travel back in time and hear Scully's words of wisdom during his...

2025 is almost over. Our PhD Committee reflects on the past year and can't wait for the New Year. On January 21, 2026 the Dodgers' luxury tax of $169 million dollars will be due. What lies ahead for the game we love?

Ed Kasputis  interviews baseball writer and author,  Zack Hample  about his book,  Watching Baseball Smarter .

We celebrate the birth of Jesus as well as a great 2025 MLB Season (if you are a Dodgers fan).

Ed Kasputis interviews G. Michael Green about his book,  Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman .

Ed Kasputis interviews Robert K. Fitts about his new book, Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan .

Ed Kasputis interviews Jonathan Eig about his best selling book – Luckiest Man : The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig .

Ed Kasputis interviews baseball researcher, John Burbridge about the 1954 World Champion New York Giants .

Next to Cincinnati 's Great American Ballpark is the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center .  Ed Kasputis interviews Paul Bernish about this must see 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 .

Let's remember one of the greatest World Series games of all time –  Game 6  of the the  2011 World Series .

Two Guardian pitchers have been Federally indicted for gambling. We discuss and ponder. Is gambling baseball's original sin? Will the freedom to gamble harm the game we love forever?

Happy Valentine's Day! Everyone likes to travel. Ed Kasputis interviews Joe Noga from cleveland.com about his article proposing that Major League Baseball play more games at non-traditional locations .

Oops they did it again… The Dodgers win the 121st World Series against a very good Blue Jays team. How good was the Series? We debate and marvel.