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1) 413: "The NFL Today" (And More!) - With Jayne Kennedy
The incomparable Jayne Kennedy ("Plain Jayne: A Memoir") joins us for an intimate conversation about a career that defied expectations and left an indelible mark on both sports broadcasting and Americ...Show More
2) 411: "Make Me Commissioner" - With Jane Leavy
Few writers have illuminated baseball’s legends with the depth, rigor, and heart of renowned sports journalist and author Jane Leavy. From Sandy Koufax to Mickey Mantle to Babe Ruth, her biographies ...Show More
3) 403: "Cincinnati Soul" - With Al Lautenslager
Our summer roadtrip rolls on this week with a deep dive into one of the Queen City's most overlooked sports stories with baseball author Al Lautenslager - whose new book "Cincinnati Soul" explores the...Show More
4) 398: The Seattle Metropolitans - With Kevin Ticen
Before the Kraken. Before the Canucks. Before the NHL crossed the 49th parallel, there was the Seattle Metropolitans -- the first American team ever to win the Stanley Cup, in 1917. This week, we unco...Show More
5) 397: The 2000 "Subway Series" - With Chris Donnelly
We use up our remaining MTA MetroCard credit this week for a sit-down with baseball author/historian Chris Donnelly — whose new book "Get Your Tokens Ready: The Late 1990s Road to the Subway Series" r...Show More
6) 396: "Play Harder" - With Gerald Early
We welcome to our microphones award-winning author, cultural critic and Washington University in St. Louis professor Gerald Early, whose new book "Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in Americ...Show More
7) 391: The NASL's Chicago Sting (& More!) - With Karl-Heinz Granitza
Live and direct from Pottsdam, it's the one-and-only Karl-Heinz Granitza — the prolific German striker who became the face of the North American Soccer League's iconic Chicago Sting -- and a transform...Show More
8) EPISODE 380: The MISL's St. Louis Steamers (+ More!) - With Carl Rose
Ain't no stoppin' us now this week as we lay down the indoor soccer turf and roll out the red carpet for one of the Major Indoor Soccer League's steeliest defenders and long-time St. Louis Steamers fa...Show More
9) EPISODE 378: Soccer's "League 1 America" - With Jim Paglia
Spurred on by a hugely intriguing article in The Athletic penned last November by Episode 274 guest Pablo Maurer (as well as another by Guardian soccer writer Jack Williams back in 2016), we delve ...Show More
10) 377: Baseball's Historical Concentricities - With Curt Smith
Renowned Presidential speechwriter-turned-sports-historian Curt Smith joins the podcast this week for an erudite look at the not-so-obvious concentricity between the story of baseball in America with ...Show More