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Dave Ziedelis – General Manager, Frederick Keys A lovely Friday evening brought us to Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick, MD. 29 years ago last night and we saw a big crowd watch a doubleheader between the Frederick Keys and the Durham Bulls. Dave Ziedelis wasn’t yet in Frederick but he has been in charge of … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #17: Frederick, MD
Kevin Heilbronner – Onetime Voice of the Prince William Cannons Being the play by play broadcaster for a Class-A baseball team can feel pretty futile – even more so than being a player at that level. Major League players, after all, typically don’t play past the age of 40; major league broadcasters often work well … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day # 16: Prince William – Woodbridge, VA
My guest on this episode of the Low Mileage Tour on the 435 Voices podcast is North Johnson. One of the great guys of minor league baseball, North is the new President of the Northwest League this season but in 1991 he was in the midst of a long run as the General Manager of … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #15: Kinston, NC
About three hours north of Charleston we continued our run through the South Atlantic League on a Friday evening as the month of May drew to a close in 1991. Today’s guest on the Low Mileage Tour is Sammy Batten. Sammy is a longtime sportswriter at the Fayetteville Observer. He’s covered minor league baseball , … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #10: Fayetteville, NC
When I set out to begin a podcast to go along with the series of brief videos I was planning to correspond with the stops we made on “Bill & Sue’s Excellent Adventure in 1991, my vision was that the guests I interviewed would be people that would know the ballpark in question in a … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #9: Charleston, SC
Tonight on the Low Mileage Tour on the 435 Voices podcast we’re paying a virtual visit to Augusta, Georgia and talking about the stadium that the Augusta Pirates began play in when they relocated from Macon in the 1998 season…Heaton Stadium. My guest is longtime Augusta Chronicle Golf Editor David Westin, who, in addition to … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #8: Augusta, GA
EA Park #50 Today’s podcast on the Low Mileage Tour on 435 Voices looks back at a baseball landscape that is now long gone. May 25, 1991, brought Sue Easler and I to our 50th park of that season, Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Montreal Expos stopped playing after the 2004 season … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day 4: West Palm Beach
Today on the Low Mileage Tour on 435 Voices we visit with Kevin Derby, a Florida political writer and baseball fan about Wolfson Park, the longtime home of the Jacksonville Suns and ballpark #38 on Bill & Sue's Excellent Adventure"
Excellent Adventure: Day 38 This episode of the Low Mileage Tour on 435 Voices includes the second part of my interview with baseball historian and sportswriter Rob Grubbs. This time we’re talking about the second of two stops we made in historic Georgia ballparks, this one, unfortunately, washed out by rain – we’re visiting about … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Stop #2
Bill Craib comes home, in a way, to Macon, Georgia where his career as a Minor League baseball executive began and ended 34 years ago. In this episode, he visits with Rob Grubbs, a local baseball historian, sportswriter and baseball kindred spirit.
September 4, 2019 This is the pilot episode of the new 435 Voices podcast, produced by Project to Find America. I hope you will enjoy it and subscribe using your favorite podcast player. Prezi Link mentioned on the podcast https://prezi.com/view/SY12Y88ArDuJjDHZgq71/ Music from https://filmmusic.io“Imagefilm 013” by Sascha Ende (https://www.sascha-ende.de)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)