We are airing this podcast this week in honor of Brant Alyea, who passed away on February 4, 2024.

Brant Alyea joins us this week on the podcast. He had an illustrious career at Hofstra University on the hardwood playing for Butch van Breda Kolff and also on the baseball diamond. Brant signed a free agent contract with the Cincinnati Reds in 1962, then the Washington Senators chose him in the first-year minor league draft in November of the same year. Brant talks about the influence Coach Ted Williams had on him as well as his two years in Minnesota before playing for the Oakland A's in 1972. Brant earned the starting spot in right field for the A's in 1972 before pulling a groin muscle in August of that year, which sidelined him for the rest of his career. Look Back When There Was Baseball at the career of Brant Alyea and what it was like playing in the American League from the late 1960s through the early 1970s.