Baseball PhD

Over 200 years ago, Francis Scott Key penned the words for our National Anthem as he watched the Battle of Baltimore from a British Navy ship. Ed Kasputis interviews author, Marc Leepson about his newly completed biography, What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life.

Everybody’s hurt and the Astros are in first place. How? Ed Kasputis interviews William Metzger from crawfishboxes.com about this tremendous feat.

Ed Kasputis interviews Cleveland Plain Dealer sports columnist Terry Pluto about Earl Weaver.

What is the identity of the Rangers? Are they bad or are they good? We debate as Ed Kasputis interviews West Jones from justbaseball.com.

Ed Kasputis interviews Mr. Sports Travel aka Joe Connor about beautiful Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Ed’s back from St. Louis where he enjoyed watching the Cardinals and exploring Ballpark Village as he interviews Heather Simon from vivaelbirdos.com about this year’s team.

Ed interviews Al Lautenslager, author of the just released book, Cincinnati Soul – An In-Depth Review of the Cincinnati Tigers, the Cincinnati Cuban Stars, and Other Negro League Baseball in Cincinnati.

Will Chase Field get renovated? Will the Dbacks get back to their World Series form? Ed Kasputis interviews Jim McLennan from azsnakepit.com to get the scoop.

In 2016, as the Cubs prepared for the National League Championship Series, our PhD Committee remembered baseball’s greatest ambassador and Hall of Fame great, Ernie Banks who passed away on January 23, 2015. Let’s play two.

Last week, Ed headed to Sacramento with our 2024 Public Servant of the Year, the Honorable Louis Schiff to see the Athletics at Sutter Health Park. Ed and Lou report back on their road trip and impressions of Sacramento.