* National Pastime Radio

Several baseball items have popped up on NPR shows in recent days:

Larry Tye, author of the new biography Satchel: The Life and Times of An American Legend, was a guest on Fresh Air. You can hear the show here as well as read an excerpt from the book.

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Brian Lehrer had this segment on the musical group, The Baseball Project, on Soundcheck (“The Baseball project aims for a hit”).

Listen to the segment here:

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On June 9, Leonard Lopate hosted Keith Hernandez in a lengthy interview on his new book, Shea Goodbye. I found Hernandez’s honesty about the process of creating the book charming. “It’s not War and Peace,” he said in response to Lopate’s questions about the journal-type format.

Hear the Hernandez segment here:

The same day, Lopate also chatted with Michael Shapiro, author of Bottom of the Ninth about the loss of the Dodgers and Giants and the ultimate birth of the Mets.

Hear the Shapiro segment here:

As an aside, Lopate interviewed John Goodman and Bill Irwin for their roles in Waiting for Godot. What unlikely connection do they share? They both starred as baseball players in feature films. Goodman appeared in the title role in the 1992 movie The Babe, while Irwin did a nice turn as Eddie Collins in John Sayles’ production of Eight Men Out.