Baseball PhD (enhanced M4A)

On September 18, 2010, Ed Kasputis got his Baseball PhD by visiting his 30th Major League Ballpark – Target Field. Our PhD Committee examines Ed about his 40 year journey though the baseball world and life.

Oh how the mighty have fallen. The Braves play in 2025 has been unrecognizable. Ed Kasputis interviews Atlanta baseball blogger, Bennett Hipp about the team he loves.

Ed Kasputis interviews Padres fan and Pastor, James D. Smith III about the importance of hobbies.  Jim shares words of wisdom that were inspired by his lovely wife, Linda many years ago.

The Royals had a terrible June. July cannot be any worse as Ed interviews Max Rieper, managing editor from royalsreview.com. Did you know that there are two Kansas Cities?

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.

Let's learn about Carl Mays who pitched for the Yankees in the 1920's and artist Gary Cieradkowski who creates beautiful baseball art a century later.

Happy Memorial Day. The Blue Jays are hoovering around .500 and waiting to get hot. When will that happen? Ed Kasputis interviews Tom Dakers from bluebirdbanter.com about the Jays, Alberta succession and his love for government run health care. O Canada.

May 17, 1979.  Ten Innings at Wrigley is Kevin Cook's vivid account of a game that could only have happened at this ballpark, in this era, with this colorful cast of heroes and heels.  Ed Kasputis interviews Kevin about his riveting book.

Right now, the Tigers are the best team in baseball. Can they keep it up? We debate the Tigers and whether Pete Rose should be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ed Kasputis interviews author and national baseball writer at the Washington Post, Barry Svrluga about his newly released book, The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season.

So far the Giants are playing like a great girlfriend, exceeding expectations. Ed Kasputis interviews Connor Grossman from GiantsPostcards.com about their surprising start.

Let's remember Baseball Talk Radio's first live podcast with Rich Baxter, Gary Mack and Ed Kasputis as we prepared for Game 6 of the 2016 National League Championship Series.  Will it be the Dodgers or the Cubs headed to Cleveland for the 112th edition of the Fall Classic?

Are you Nuts about the Nats? The rebuild continues as they sit in 4th place in the NL East. Ed Kasputis interviews Sam Sallick from federalbaseball.com about the team he loves.

Fatherhood, baseball, romance and family – those are the themes of Kelli's Pine. We break our mold as Ed Kasputis interviews our first fiction author, Jay Grochowski about his great new book, Kelli's Pine.

Can the Yankees repeat as American League Champions? We debate as we interview baseball authors, Louis Schiff and Paul Semendinger.

How many baseball cards did you collect? Do you still have them? Our PhD Committee remembers as Ed Kasputis interviews Tanner Jones about his book, Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict.

Can the Brew Crew repeat and win the NL Central? With lots of injuries to their pitching staff, the Brewers are hanging tough.

Let's learn about the woman who called Babe Ruth “daddy” as author Jerry Amernic interviews Babe Ruth's daughter, Julia Ruth Stevens who passed away this year at the age of 102.

Can the Guardians win the AL Central again? Farley tells us about Guardians Opening Day as Ed interviews Joe Noga from cleveland.com about the 2025 team.

We're Rockin' in the Free World as we celebrate the election of David Ortiz into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and ponder the fate of the rest, including Curt Schilling. Louis H. Schiff, co-author of Baseball and the Law: Cases and Materials joins our conversation to add wisdom and perspective.

We review both the Cubs and White Sox as Farley reports back on his recent trip to the Windy City. Ed interviews Al Yellon from bleedcubbieblue.com and Josh Nelson from soxmachine.com. Cubs first in the NL Central? White Sox last in the American League? We ponder and debate.

Andy Van Slyke played in the Majors for 12 years. He's got a great web site and a podcast. Ed Kasputis interviews Andy about the game we love. Check out andyvanslyke.com.

The Rockies are projected to be the worst MLB team this year. Let's play 162. Our PhD Committee makes their post season picks as Ed Kasputis interviews Professor Bruce Bukiet from the New Jersey Institute of Technology about his post season predictions using the power of math.

In the history of Minor League Baseball there has only been one madame president.  Ed Kasputis interviews Lori Webb who has been president of the Southern League since 2012 about her inspirational story.

In the past three seasons, the Orioles have won 275 games. Can they win another 90+ this year and overtake the aging Yankees? Time will tell. Ed Kasputis interviews Paul Vallee III, the host for the Bat Around for Press Box Sports in Baltimore to find out.

Ed & Dave interview Canadian Chris Lapointe about his 60 day U.S. baseball road trip.

Let's cross the Pacific for opening day at the Tokyo Series as Ed Kasputis interviews Shane Barclay from JapanBall.com and Matt Moreno from DodgerBlue.com.

Let's learn about Baseball Hall of Famer, Orlando Cepeda as  Ed Kasputis interviews baseball historian, Bruce Markusen.

We enjoy spring as spring training breaks out in Arizona and Florida. Ed Kasputis interviews Matt Moreno from dodgerblue.com about the spring training experience.

Warren Spahn won 363 games ranking him as the winningest southpaw in Major League history. Ed Kasputis interviews author, Lew Freedman about his compelling book.

Ed Kasputis interviews baseball author, Chris Williams about his book, The Flip Side of Greatness: THE BASEBALL BOZO AWARD 1920-1999 which “honors” players who toiled on some of the game's greatest teams of all time but didn't do very well statistically.

Let's learn about Hall of Fame Great, Willie McCovey who hit 521 career home runs and passed away in 2018 at the age of 80.  Ed Kasputis interviews baseball historian, Mark Armour about “Willie Mac.”

While Spring Training has begun, let's talk about the youngsters. Travel Ball, is it good or bad? Ed Kasputis interviews former prosecutor turned pitching coach and now podcaster, Jack Moore from the YouTube channel, mooretoconsider.

Ed Kasputis and Dave Matejczyk interview baseball historian, Craig Brown about Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856 – 1924) and Weldy Walker (1860 – 1937), who were the first two African American professional baseball players.

Let's go back to 1969 with former Met, Art Shamsky as Ed interviews him about his new book, Mets Stories: I Only Tell my Friends.

Ed Kasputis interviews author Jim Collins about his updated book, The Last Best League.

Ed Kasputis interviews author, Kelly G. Park about his new book, Just Like Me: When the Pros Played on the Sandlot which is the first book to tell the story of professional baseball players' memories of playing youth baseball.

Ed Kasputis interviews comedian and author, Steve Melia about his book, The Last 42: Life is Short – Enjoy the Journey which honors both Yankee closer, Mariano Rivera and Steve's older brother, Jim who passed away on August 2, 2013.

Congratulations to Dick Allen, Dave Parker, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner for being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Our PhD Committee salutes these five and debate if there is parity in Major League Baseball.

Ed Kasputis interviews Larry Ruttman about his book, American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball.

Our PhD Committee goes civic, as we honor our 2024 Public Servant of the Year.

Our PhD Committee remembers Roberto Clemente on the 49th Anniversary of his death.  Ed Kasputis and Dave Matejczyk interview Pulitzer Prize winner, David Maraniss about Clemente.