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Or, in the case, the podcast did. Both of these items relate to the recent World Series. An offshoot of the “National Pastime Radio” tag, this was heard in the “Who’s Carl This Time” segment of on the Nov. 2 episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me: PETER SAGAL: All right, Gary, here is your […]
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Speaking of the Dodgers, the legend (wait for it) ary broadcaster was himself the subject of this interview on All Things Considered. Scully began working for the Dodgers in 1950, but he wasn’t calling that historic 1951 playoff game with the NY Giants where Pafko was left hanging. From “Vin Scully Remembers His Greatest Calls,” […]
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Baseball’s Methuselah appeared on Fresh Air, interviewed by Dave Davies, to discuss his long and storied career and new book, Just Tell Me I Can’t: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time You can read the story and listen to the segment here. UPDATE: I had not yet listened to the segment […]
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Mariano Riviera’s retirement was worthy of as segment of Morning Edition today. Read and hear Mike Pesca’s piece here. Last week I posted about the Houston Astros drawing a 0.0 rating according to Nielsen. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me thought that was pretty funny, too. PETER SAGAL: Little training there. Kyrie, the Houston Astros set […]
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Long-time Mets broadcaster Howie Rose put in appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show earlier this month to discuss (ostensibly) his memoir, Put It In the Book!: A Half-Century of Mets Mania. You can listen to it here. * * * Baseball once again was a topic, albeit a brief one, on my favorite NPR show, […]
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Maybe they should have used this on the “Not my job” segment, since Alex Rodriguez might be out of one soon. From last week’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me‘s “who’s Carl this time?” This was the last of the three quotes. CARL KASELL: I want to be a role model. PETER SAGAL: That was New […]
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George Vecsey, author of Stan Musial: An American Life and Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game, among others, was the main guest on yesterday’s Brian Lehrer Show. You can listen to the segment below: * * * Frank “Tug” McGraw was the subject of the “Not My Job” segment on Wait Wait Don’t Tell […]
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A fair share of the recent Cooperstown Baseball Symposium considered myriad aspects of Casey at the Bat, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this month. The esteemed sportswriter Frank Deford was the keynote speaker for the event. Deford contributed a speculative article, “Huge Commotion in Mudville” to the July 18, 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated. Shortly […]
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Or, ‘What’s a ball game without a nosh?’ From this week’s “Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank” round of my favorite NPR podcast: PETER SAGAL: Cincinnati Reds reliever Aroldis Chapman pitched the worst game of his career after blanking. FAITH SALIE: Michele? (Editor’s Note: a reference to that show’s “Not My Job” guest, sports side-line reporter Michele Tafoya) (LAUGHTER) […]
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And I’m not talking about the hundreds of podcasts actually devoted to the national pastime, but a couple not normally associated with the game. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, the NPR (aka National Pastime Radio) news quiz show, featured San Francisco Giants announced Jon Miller in its “Not My Job” segment on the March 2 […]
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Not to get political here, but judging by what’s been coming down the Internet, there’s a lot of connection between presidents and baseball. For example, The Hall of Very Good published this piece on “The Bond Between Baseball and the Presidency.” In addition, Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight fame, still gets kudos for his baseball work, […]
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Former ML pitcher Bobby Ojeda published this lengthy piece in the May 26 New York Times about the pain incurred by his chosen profession. Yesterday he discussed it on NPR’s Fresh Air. Kind of surprising, since he’s not plugging a book… Frank Deford does regular commentary pieces for the public radio network. His latest considers […]
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In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
My article on Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series appears in
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Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
