Inside Baseball

Inside Baseball host Jon Brolin, the Founder and Managing Partner of Edenbrook Capital, LLC, shares investing lessons from the game of baseball.   Learn valuable lessons about assessing risk-reward, margin of safety, avoiding strikeouts, having multiple ways to win, concentration, continuous improvement, controlling the controllable and the interplay of process and context in the stories of:   1)...

Ryan Lavarnway had a fascinating baseball career. He led the country in hitting as a sophomore at Yale, was a premier power prospect in the minor leagues, won a World Series ring and played in the Olympics. He was also called up to the Majors and sent down to the minors 26 times over a 15-year career. Listen to Ryan's story and you will not only gain insights into the gritty reality of being a car...

John Stuper went from having no college offers in high school, to pitching a complete game in the World Series as a rookie, to coaching the Yale baseball team for 30 years, retiring as the winningest coach in program history. Hear how John took the lessons he learned as a player and turned them into the foundation for a program that turned out leaders in baseball and all walks of life. Join host J...

Warren Morris went from being a walk-on player to hitting a walk-off home run that won the College World Series for LSU in 1996. Hear how Warren overcame adversity to deliver the biggest hit in college baseball history. Join host Jon Brolin as he speaks with Warren about his path to LSU, his defining home run, his time in the Majors, his reliance on faith and his life's path since the walk-off.

  Kenan Kamwana Holley has directed numerous powerful documentaries at the intersection of sports and humanity. Hear how Kenan's early sports experience as a role player framed his world view and how his family background shaped his perspective on race relations, a topic covered in many of his films. Join host Jon Brolin as he speaks with Kenan about how he broke into the industry, the Amazon seri...

Eric Holtz overcame incredible odds to lead Israel to its first ever Olympic Baseball appearance at the recent Tokyo Games.     Hear this inspirational and funny story of the intersection of one man's love of baseball, a multigenerational family journey, a nation's emergence onto the world stage and triumph in the shadow of the horrors of the Holocaust and Munich.     Join host Jon Brolin as he sp...

Todd Lieberman is a Hollywood producer at the top of his game, and he's built a career that has included blockbusters and critical darlings.  His first love, however, was baseball cards, and as his film career took off, he's been able to take his collecting to the next level as well. Join host Jon Brolin as he speaks with Todd about his early days of card collecting, how his collecting evolved as...

Art Shamsky of the Cincinnati Reds set a Major League record by hitting 3 home runs in a game he didn't enter until the 8th inning in August 1966, the most ever by a player who didn't start a game and a record that has never been matched.  In the next game he played, two days later, he entered as a pinch hitter and again hit a home run, tying a Major League record for home runs in consecutive at b...

As a 21-year-old rookie pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in 1967, Bill Rohr came within one strike of throwing a no-hitter in his Major League debut. No pitcher before or since has gone as far in a debut before giving up a hit since 1900.  A week later he threw another complete game victory, also against the New York Yankees. Rohr never won another game for the Red Sox, but those two wins proved cru...