Bergino Baseball Clubhouse
104 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFeaturing premier authors, Pulitzer Prize-winners, team owners, Hall of Famers, and the most interesting folks in baseball
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A Conversation with Watercolor Artist James Fiorentino
November 22, 2021 18:12 - 43 minutes - 99.5 MBA special presentation from the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse. Our first podcast during these pandemic times… In the Fall of 2017, the now shuttered brick-and-mortar location of the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse hosted “Baseball in Black and White: The Watercolor Paintings of James Fiorentino.” In the Fall of 2021, the Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery in Bernardsville NJ hosted James Fiorentino and “Baseball in Black and White: Extra Innings.” I sat down at the beautiful Studio 7 gallery wit...
"San Francisco Year Zero" with Lincoln Mitchell
December 03, 2019 02:46 - 1 hour - 139 MBSan Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock, and a Third-Place Baseball Team with Lincoln Mitchell Special Roundtable Guests: Jennifer Blowdryer and Kenneth Sherrill A wide-ranging conversation touching on San Francisco in the 1970s, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Dan White, urban America, political campaigns, city government, the San Francisco Giants leaving the city, segregation, diversity, bubbles, Dianne Feinstein, Jello Biafra, the Dead Kennedys, the punk rock scene, Joe Dirt...
"War in the Ring" with John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro
September 03, 2019 20:07 - 1 hour - 165 MBWar in the Ring with John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro -- and special Roundtable Guest: Mitch Nathanson. A wide-ranging conversation touching on a behind-the-scenes look at the writing process and the challenges of a Young Adult book, Joe Louis and the IRS, Max Schmeling’s actions during the Nazi regime, Jim Bouton, Dick Allen, Willie Horton and the Detroit riots, the “First Game” project and memory, Janis Ian, Mudcat Grant and JFK, boxing in the 20th century, Major League Baseball in 1938 and...
"Doc, Donnie, The Kid, and Billy Brawl" with Chris Donnelly
September 03, 2019 17:43 - 45 minutes - 103 MBDoc, Donnie, The Kid, and Billy Brawl with author Chris Donnelly and special Roundtable Guest: Tony Denera. We discussed Major League baseball in 1980s New York, Gary Carter, Don Baylor, Nelson Doubleday, George Steinbrenner, Frank Cashen, Seinfeld, Bat Day, Billy Martin, Ed Whitson, the National and American Leagues, the All-Star Game, Duane Reade and ticket scalping, and Sinatra the French Bulldog. Chris Donnelly is the author of How the Yankees Explain New York and Baseball’s Greatest S...
"The Arena" with Rafi Kohan
November 10, 2017 19:07 - 50 minutes - 115 MBInside the tailgating, ticket-scalping, mascot-racing, dubiously funded, and possibly haunted monuments of American sport "For one year, I traveled the United States visiting sports stadiums -- all manner of arenas, domes, ballparks -- for the purpose of writing a book. The idea was to go beyond the ball games and architectural blueprints to explore the inner workings of these steel and concrete structures that hover over our towns, imposing their will on landscapes and skylines, to better...
"The Cooperstown Casebook" with Jay Jaffe
July 28, 2017 16:30 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBThe National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, tucked away in upstate New York in a small town called Cooperstown, is far from any major media market or big league stadium. Yet no sports hall of fame's membership is so hallowed, nor its qualifications so debated, nor its voting process so dissected. Since its founding in 1936, the Hall of Fame's standards for election have been nebulous, and its selection processes arcane, resulting in confusion among voters, not to mention mistakes in who...
"The Pride of the Yankees" with Richard Sandomir
June 26, 2017 17:08 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBThe untold story behind the first great sports film... The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig stood in Yankee Stadium and gave a speech that contained the phrase that would become legendary: "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." He died two years later and his fiery widow, Eleanor, wanted nothing more than to keep his memory alive. With her forceful will, she and the irascible...
"Piazza" with author Greg Prince
June 16, 2017 18:10 - 1 hour - 154 MBA franchise and fan base in perpetual search of validation finally had its ticket punched as 2016 dawned. Mike Piazza, who held records in one hand and a city's rapt attention in the other, gained election to the Hall of Fame. Within weeks of this long-awaited announcement, the ballclub with whom he chose to cast his eternal lot, the New York Mets, made a date to retire his number. In Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star, Greg Prince explores the parallel paths Piazza and the Mets set out...
"Making My Pitch" with Jean Hastings Ardell
June 10, 2017 20:59 - 52 minutes - 121 MB"Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey" tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men's collegiate game. After Mike Veeck signed Borders in May 1997 to pitch for his St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League, she accomplished what no woman had done since the N...
"Urban Shocker" with Steve Steinberg
June 02, 2017 17:57 - 57 minutes - 133 MBBaseball in the 1920's is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankees player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher. With the 1927 Yankees, widely viewed to be the best team in Major League Baseball history, Shocker pitched with guts and guile, finishing with a record of 18-6 even while his fastball and physical skills were deserting him. Hardly anyone knew that Shocker was...
"It Happens Every Spring" with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ira Berkow
May 20, 2017 17:54 - 56 minutes - 128 MBA Pulitzer Prize-winner returns to the Clubhouse. It Happens Every Spring: DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark -- opinions and reflections on the National Pastime from one of New York's most popular sportswriters. As these gents would say... "It can be stated as a law that the sportswriter whose horizons are no wider than the outfield fences is a bad sportswriter because he has no sense of proportion and no awareness of the real world around him. Ira ...
"Dinner with DiMaggio" with Dr. Rock Positano and John Positano
May 16, 2017 17:19 - 56 minutes - 130 MBThe real Joe DiMaggio -- remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life. Candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field. Dr. Rock Positano, an internationally renowned foot specialist in New York City, was introduced to Joe DiMaggio by Bill Gallo in 1990. The Yankee Clipper's career-ending heel spur injury and botched sur...
"Hank Greenberg in 1938" with Ron Kaplan
May 08, 2017 19:11 - 1 hour - 145 MBHank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where he hit 40 home runs and had 184 RBIs. Even with his success at the plate, neither Greenberg nor the rest of the world could have expected what was about to happen in 1938. From his first day in the big leagues, the New York-born Greenberg had dealt with persecution for being Jewish. From a teammate asking where his horns were to the verbal abuse from bigoted fans and the media, the 6'3" slugger always did his best to shut the noise o...
"Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character" with Marty Appel
April 29, 2017 21:53 - 57 minutes - 131 MBAs a player, Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel's contemporaries included Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Christy Mathewson... and he was the only person in history to wear the uniforms of all four New York teams: the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets. For more than five glorious decades, Stengel was the undisputed, quirky, hilarious, and beloved face of baseball -- and along the way he revolutionized the role of manager while winning a spectacular ten pennants and seven World Series Champions...
"The New York Yankees Fans' Bucket List" with Mark Feinsand
April 22, 2017 19:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBbuck•et list - noun informal - a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime All New York Yankees fans have a bucket list of activities to take part in at some point in their lives. But even the most die-hard fans haven't done everything there is to experience. Sportswriter Mark Feinsand led us through ideas, recommendations, and insider tips for must-see places and can't-miss activities. And not every experience requires a ...
"One Nation Under Baseball" with John Florio & Ouisie Shapiro
April 15, 2017 17:33 - 58 minutes - 135 MB"The '60s were a time of conflict, progress, tragedy, triumph, and unforgettable events in the nation and its pastime. One Nation Under Baseball connects the two in revealing and insightful fashion." -Bob Costas One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport -- fairness, competition, and mythology -- came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era t...
"One Nation Under Baseball" with John Florio & Ouisie Shapiro
April 15, 2017 17:33 - 58 minutes - 135 MB"The '60s were a time of conflict, progress, tragedy, triumph, and unforgettable events in the nation and its pastime. One Nation Under Baseball connects the two in revealing and insightful fashion." -Bob Costas One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport -- fairness, competition, and mythology -- came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era t...
"42 Faith" with Ed Henry
April 07, 2017 20:46 - 1 hour - 164 MB"Quit praying for me alone, Ma, and pray for the whole team." -Jackie Robinson's letter to his mother in 1947, his rookie season Journalist and baseball lover Ed Henry reveals for the first time the backstory of faith that guided Jackie Robinson into not only the baseball record books but the annals of civil rights advancement as well. Through recently discovered sermons, interviews with Robinson's family and friends, and even an unpublished book by the player himself, Henry details...
"Frick: Baseball's Third Commissioner" with John Carvalho
December 19, 2016 17:39 - 53 minutes - 122 MB"Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound." Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the "asterisk" next to Roger Maris's record. But his tenure as commissioner carried the game through pivotal changes -- television, continued integration, West Coast expansion and labor unrest. During those 14 years, and 17 more as National League president, he witnessed baseball history from the perspective of a man who began as a sportswriter. Auburn U...
"Will Big League Baseball Survive" with Lincoln Mitchell
December 05, 2016 17:48 - 56 minutes - 129 MBIn his shrewd analysis -- Will Big League Baseball Survive? -- Lincoln Mitchell asks whether the sport will continue in its current form as a huge, lucrative global business that offers a monopoly in North America and whether those structures are sustainable. Mitchell places baseball in the context of the larger, evolving American and global entertainment sector. He examines how both changes directly related to baseball -- including youth sports and the increased globalization of the...
"Baseball's Most Baffling MVP Ballots" with Jeremy Lehrman
November 12, 2016 21:08 - 1 hour - 138 MB"I just won the Nobel Prize of baseball." -Elston Howard, American League MVP, 1963 Snubs. Grudges. Conspiracies. Incompetence. All in a day's work for some of those who vote on Baseball's Most Valuable Player Award. From its colorful and scandalous beginnings more than a century ago, the MVP has evolved into the most prestigious -- and contentious -- individual honor in the sport. No award means more to the players, the media, or the fans -- and no other award can claim a voti...
"The Eighth Wonder of the World" with Robert Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack
November 05, 2016 15:48 - 59 minutes - 136 MB“This is a tough park for a hitter when the air conditioning is blowing in.” -Bob Boone When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome -- nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World -- captured the attention of a nation, bringing pride to the city and enhancing its reputation across the country. It was a Texas-sized vision of the future, an unthinkable feat of engineering with premium luxury suites, theater-style seating, and the first animated scoreboard. Yet there were memorable problems ...
"The Last Innocents" with Michael Leahy
October 01, 2016 16:47 - 1 hour - 145 MBWhite, black, Jewish, Christian, wealthy, working class, conservative, liberal -- the Los Angeles Dodgers of the 1960s embodied the disparate cultural forces at play in an America riven by race and war. In “The Last Innocents,” award-winning writer Michael Leahy tells the story of this mesmerizing time and extraordinary team through seven players -- Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Tommy Davis, Dick Tracewski, and Lou Johnson. It is a story about what it was like to be...
"The Baseball Whisperer" with Michael Tackett
September 24, 2016 16:15 - 31 minutes - 72.4 MB“For all who care about baseball, character, and leadership, Michael Tackett has brought us the inspiring and unforgettable story of a phenomenal coach and his legacy.” -Michael Beschloss, historian and political commentator Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the corn fields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, a baseball whisperer who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift...
"Down On The Korner" with Mark Rosenman
July 18, 2016 17:48 - 49 minutes - 113 MB“Ralph Kiner was a jewel. He loved the game of baseball. He loved to talk baseball.” -Tom Seaver One of the staples of the long and storied history of baseball on television is the postgame show, and none was more beloved than “Kiner’s Korner.” From the early 1960s into the 1990s, Hall of Famer and iconic broadcaster Ralph Kiner hosted the show that brought players into the homes of fans across the nation. Down on the Korner -- from the host, to the set, to the guests, to the stories ...
"Terror in the City of Champions" with Tom Stanton
June 17, 2016 16:23 - 50 minutes - 115 MB“The Freedom of Information Act is a critical and sometimes underappreciated tool that allows all of us access to the records of our government. It was through the act that I obtained copies of more than nine hundred pages of FBI documents related to the Black Legion. These proved vital.” -Tom Stanton In the mid-1930s, Detroit reigned as the City of Champions. Within a six-month span, the Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings won a World Series, NFL title, and Stanley Cup -- a major-sports trif...
"Jackie Robinson In Quotes" with Danny Peary
June 13, 2016 18:46 - 55 minutes - 127 MB“When he was eight, Dad got into a name-calling fight with the little white girl who lived across the street. The children’s verbal battle was interrupted when the girl’s father came outside and started throwing rocks at my father.” -Sharon Robinson, Jackie’s daughter "Jackie Robinson In Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball's Most Significant Player" Danny Peary has skillfully curated the best quotes to shed new light on the man behind number 42. Featured are quotes by Jackie Robins...
"Nine Innings To Success" with Hall of Famer Jim Palmer
June 06, 2016 18:37 - 1 hour - 150 MBIn 1966, Jim Palmer was just 20 years old when he became the youngest pitcher to throw a World Series shutout, helping lead the Baltimore Orioles to their first-ever championship. Two years later, Palmer's budding career almost ended due to arm problems. Yet, he mounted an inspiring comeback and reached the pinnacle of his profession, becoming the winningest pitcher of the 1970s and the only hurler to win a World Series game in three different decades. A Hall of Famer... with three World...
"Cuba's Baseball Defectors" with author Peter Bjarkman
May 28, 2016 15:59 - 56 minutes - 130 MB“All things considered there are only two kinds of men in the world -- those that stay at home and those that do not. The second are the most interesting.” -Rudyard Kipling The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban ballplayers in Major League Baseball has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by Yoenis Cespedes, Yasiel Puig, Jose Abreu, Aroldis Chapman, and a handful of others have been further enhanced by feel-good tales...
"The Only Rule Is It Has To Work" with Ben Lindbergh
May 13, 2016 17:48 - 41 minutes - 95.3 MBWhat would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team? It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That’s what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the ...
"The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty" with Hal Bock
May 07, 2016 15:54 - 53 minutes - 121 MB“The Cubs became a metaphor for the underdog, the loser, lovable or not, that we as a species can’t help but instinctively pull for.” -Joe Mantegna, actor "The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty: Before The Curse" by Hal Bock The last time the Chicago Cubs played in the World Series, World War II had just ended. The last time they won a World Series, World War I had not yet begun. But from 1906 - 1910 the Cubs not only played in the World Series four of the five years, they won two World Champi...
"God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen" with author Mitchell Nathanson
April 23, 2016 17:05 - 56 minutes - 130 MB“I believe God Almighty hisself would have trouble handling Richie Allen.” -George Myatt, Philadelphia Phillies’ interim manager, 1969 When the Philadelphia Phillies signed Dick Allen in 1960, fans of the franchise envisioned bearing witness to feats never before accomplished by a Phillies player. A half-century later, they’re still trying to make sense of what they saw. Carrying to the plate baseball’s heaviest and loudest bat as well as the burden of being the club’s first African Am...
"Kings of Queens: Life Beyond Baseball with the '86 Mets" with author Erik Sherman
April 07, 2016 14:31 - 56 minutes - 130 MB“I’m so proud of what we accomplished in that magical 1986 season and the brotherhood that we still have for one another all these years later. Enjoy this personal portrayal of one of baseball history’s greatest and most charismatic teams.” -Davey Johnson In 1986, the bad guys of baseball won the World Series. “What if I actually went out and visited the players where they are today -- in their homes, in the dugouts they currently coach or manage in, or in the bars they might frequent? ...
"Greatness in the Shadows" with author Douglas Branson
March 28, 2016 15:48 - 52 minutes - 121 MB“Larry Doby’s trials, and the triumphs that earned him a place in Cooperstown, are a stirring story wonderfully told by Douglas Branson.” -George F. Will Just eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Larry Doby became the first black player to integrate the American League, signing with the Cleveland Indians in July 1947. Doby went on to become a seven-time All-Star who led the Indians to two pennants. In many respects, Robinson and Doby were equals in their baseb...
"Amazin' Again" with author Greg Prince
March 19, 2016 20:07 - 54 minutes - 124 MB“The Mets are gonna be amazing.” -Casey Stengel, circa 1975 They were coming off a seemingly endless string of losing records. They were considered years away from legitimate contention. They were derided and disregarded as a matter of course. But in 2015, the New York Mets changed their course and changed their story. The result was the best kind of amazin’. They proceeded to capture a division title, raise a pennant, and lay claim to the heart of their city. Author Greg Prince -- ...
"The Cardinals Way" with Howard Megdal
March 08, 2016 22:38 - 59 minutes - 137 MBHow one team embraced tradition and Moneyball at the same time... The St. Louis Cardinals have experienced the kind of success that is rare in baseball. They not only win, but do so with an apparently bottomless pool of talent, one that is mostly homegrown. “The Cardinal Way” -- a term that has come to represent many things to fans, media, and other organizations, from an ironclad code of conduct to the team’s cutting-edge use of statistics and analytics, and a farm system that has trans...
"Black Baseball, Black Business" with Roberta Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen
February 26, 2016 20:48 - 1 hour - 171 MB“Desegregation in baseball was hard on everybody.” -Monte Irvin, Hall of Famer An extraordinary history of the Negro Leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport Roberta Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen examine how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. O...
"The Golden Era of Major League Baseball" with Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
February 05, 2016 20:53 - 59 minutes - 135 MBA former CIA analyst walked through the Clubhouse door... In The Golden Era of Major League Baseball: A Time of Transition and Integration, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte explores the significant events and momentous changes that took place in baseball from 1947 to 1960. Beginning with Jackie Robinson’s rookie season in 1947, Soderholm-Difatte provides a careful and thorough examination of baseball’s integration, including the struggles of black players who were not able to break into the startin...
"Fun City: John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and How Sports Saved New York in the 1960s" with Sean Deveney
January 25, 2016 19:22 - 50 minutes - 115 MB“Coming events cast their shadows before.” -Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet On January 1, 1966, New York came to a standstill as the city’s transit workers went on strike. This was the first day on the job for Mayor John Lindsay. He would approach the transit shutdown with the sort of dynamic problem solving that would be his hallmark. He ignored the cold and walked four miles, famously declaring, “I still think it is a fun city.” As Lindsay juggled his city’s repeated crises, the sport...
"Baseball Immortal: Derek Jeter" with Danny Peary
December 17, 2015 16:29 - 1 hour - 162 MB“Passion is the genesis of genius.” -Galileo Baseball Immortal: Derek Jeter takes you on a remarkable forty-year journey, letting you step inside the great Yankee shortstop’s life and career through his own words and those of the people who have known him best personally and in the sports community. The result is an incredible, insightful look at what made him not only an amazing ballplayer, but also an intriguing and complex personality. The book is packed with quotes by Jeter’s parents,...
"A Century in the Bleachers" with Arnold Hano and filmmaker Jon Leonoudakis
November 16, 2015 18:27 - 45 minutes - 104 MBMeet Arnold Hano. He might be the Babe Ruth of writers. Arnold has been published in nine decades, wrote twenty-seven books, sold over a million of them, and penned 500 magazine and newspaper articles. Hano! A Century in the Bleachers is the story of the extraordinary life and times of 93-year-old Arnold Hano, one of the most prolific writers of the past century. Baseball fan, war veteran, activist and storyteller emeritus: few have lived and chronicled the American experience as extensiv...
"Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League" with Cesar Brioso
November 10, 2015 16:21 - 40 minutes - 91.6 MBIn February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dramatic series win by Almendares against its rival Habana. As the celebration spread through the streets of Havana and across Cuba, the Brooklyn Dodgers -- and a minor leaguer named Jackie Robinson -- were beginning spring training on the island. Robinson was two months away from making his major league debut in Brooklyn. To avoid racism and harassment from the crowds in Florida during this cri...
"The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball" with Charles Fountain
November 03, 2015 16:47 - 58 minutes - 134 MBWe are continually pulled to the story of the 1919 World Series and the Chicago White Sox -- The Black Sox -- because so much of modern sport, and our attitude towards it, springs from the scandal. In The Betrayal, Charles Fountain traces the Black Sox story from its roots in the gambling culture that pervaded the game in the years surrounding World War I, through the confusing events of the 1919 World Series itself, to the noisy aftermath and trial, and illuminates the moment as baseball'...
"Game of My Life: NY Mets" with Ed Charles and author Michael Garry
October 22, 2015 15:00 - 1 hour - 176 MBAn October evening in the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse with a World Series Champion. Michael Garry, author of Game of My Life: New York Mets, took us through the most unforgettable games in Mets history, as the franchise morphed from a dismal expansion team in 1962 to World Series Champions in 1969 and 1986 and then back to basement dwellers before meeting the Yankees in the 2000 Subway Series and evolving into the current, highly promising squad. Then, special guest Ed Charles -- "The Glide...
"Pinstripes and Penance / Long Road Home" with John Malangone and Mike Harrison
October 10, 2015 20:12 - 43 minutes - 98.7 MB“I want you to stay away from my brothers. You are prone to trouble. You are always in trouble.” -Mickey Mantle After a private screening of the award-winning documentary Long Road Home, John Malangone spoke in the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse. In 1937, at the age of six, John found a broken umbrella in the basement of his East Harlem tenement. He stripped it and turned it into a javelin. John threw it, accidentally hitting a child in the head, piercing his skull. The child was only a ...
"At The Ballpark" -- A Phenomenal Panel
September 26, 2015 21:38 - 1 hour - 157 MBA phenomenal panel on a Friday evening in the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse... “At The Ballpark” with Lee Lowenfish, Roberta Newman, Charlie Vascellaro & Russell Wolinsky. They talked Baseball. We listened and learned. “At the Ballpark: A Fan’s Companion” is the perfect how-to guide -- especially for young fans -- illustrating the experience of watching, understanding and enjoying baseball. In the words of the Chicago Tribune: “Take kids out to the ballgame -- and bring this book.” The p...
"The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families" with Kevin Cook
June 22, 2015 18:32 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBA tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons share the game... Almost two hundred father-son pairs have played in the big leagues. Kevin Cook takes us inside the clubhouses, homes, and lives of many of the greats. In visiting these legendary families, Cook discovers that ball-playing families are a lot like our own. Dan Haren regrets the long road trips that keep him from his kids. Ike Davis and his father, a former Yankee, debate whether Ike should pitch or play first base...
"Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio" with James Walker
June 06, 2015 18:40 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MB“I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.” -President Gerald R. Ford Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years. The first All-Star Game, Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech, Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World.” Red Barber, Vin Scully, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Bob Uecker, and dozens of other beloved announcers helped cement the love affair between radio and the national pastime. Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio takes reader...
"The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed The New York Yankees" with Steve Steinberg
May 30, 2015 17:58 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MB“Ruppert and Huggins were the principal figures in the transition of the Yankees from an afterthought on the New York baseball scene to the nation’s greatest sports dynasty of the twentieth century.” -Marty Appel From the team’s inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap “Til” Huston. Three years later, wh...
"Split Season 1981" with Jeff Katz, the Mayor of Cooperstown
May 26, 2015 22:48 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBThe Mayor of Cooperstown, an author, and a former options trader walked into a Clubhouse... The never-before-told, behind-the-scenes story of the exciting and memorable 1981 baseball season. The year of Fernando Valenzuela, Pete Rose, the last Yankees-Dodgers World Series -- and the mid-season players’ strike that cut the heart out of the American summer. Sourcing extensive interviews with almost all of the major participants in the strike, Split Season 1981: Fernandomania, The Bronx Zoo,...