Where, oh where, have my NPR baseball interviews gone?

May 3, 2019

Now that my commute to work takes barely 15 minutes, I don’t have much time to listen to podcasts (my previous gig was almost 45 minutes away; plenty of time to get through a whole program). But even if I did, it seems there is a decided lack of interviews with baseball book authors these days.

I don’t know whether to chalk that up to the competition for time or a lack of interest on the part of the hosts/producers. Back in the day — i.e., a couple of years ago — you could count on hearing from a number of writers on shows hosted by Terry Gross (especially if Dave Davies was sitting in for her), Brian Lehrer, or Leonard Lopate (now persona non grata). Davies did interview Tyler Kepner on his book K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches recently, but I haven’t had the chance to listen to it yet).

Only a Game remains NPR’s only wholly-purposed sports program. The hosts, almost of necessity, frequently have baseball guests on, but, again, haven’t been able to listen to any of them.

Only A Game

It’s still one of the regrets of my life that I never had the chance to appear as a guest on any of those programs for either 501Baseball Books or Hank Greenberg in 1938 (or even The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games). Maybe the next one.

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