Back When There Was Baseball: Mike Epstein
Our guest this week is Mike Epstein. Mike played in the Majors from 1966-1974 with various clubs and was part of the 1972 Oakland A’s world championship team. He went to Cal-Berkeley on a football scholarship but ended up switching to baseball. Mike…
Back When There Was Baseball: Dave Ford
Dave Ford joins us this week. Dave was a 1st round draft pick in 1975 by the Baltimore Orioles. He was one of the many hot prospects and dominant pitchers that were a part of the Oriole organization at that time. Listen as Dave talks about the…
Sports Authors Showcase: The Called Shot by Tom Wolf
Author Tom Wolf joins me this week to discuss his book The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, & the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932. Tom has written several pieces including books and essays. I was pleasantly surprised when…
Back When There Was Baseball: Jerry Crawford
Our guest this week is former National League umpire Jerry Crawford. Jerry comes from a family of officials. His father Shag was a Major League umpire from 1955-1975 and his brother Joey, was an NBA official from 1977-2016. Jerry started out…
Back When There Was Baseball: Rick Wise
Rick Wise joins us this week to talk about his outstanding career. Rick's career was lengthy, 1963-1982, with only parts of 3 seasons in the Minor Leagues. He started 8 games for the 1964 Phillies in a year in which the Phillies collapsed at the end of…
Sports Authors Showcase/Back When There Was Baseball: Zack Minasian
Zack Minasian joins us this week to talk about his book Lasorda University: A Recollection of My Summer of '68 with Tommy Lasorda and the Ogden Dodgers in our combined Sports Authors Showcase and Back When There Was Baseballpodcasts. Zack…
Back When There Was Baseball: Steve Whitaker
Steve Whitaker joins us this week. Steve played from 1962-1972 with parts of 5 seasons in the Big Leagues. He started out in the Yankees organization and talks about playing in Yankee Stadium (when the monuments were in the field of play) with Mickey…
Back When There Was Baseball: Greg Terlecky
Greg Terlecky joins us this week. We've had the privilege of hosting several pitchers that had great resumes, but for some reason or other, just didn't quite pan out. Greg is one of those pitchers and had he not been "rushed", could have had a different…
Down the stretch they come
Sport’s longest regular season has reached the home stretch yet again.Yet again I say, “Thank God.”See, I am an old school type. I am also a Pirates fan. I hate a lot about how the game is played these days. And I hate how the Pirates play most days, and…
