The Small Town Baseball Commute Podcast
1) Travis Thompson, Haugen Knights
Longtime ballplayer and current WBA Champion Travis Thompson kicks off season 2 of The Commute! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballcommute/support
2) Episode 45 - Ken Daly, a Friendly Stranger in the Team Hat
Ken Daly is one of those great characters within and around the town ball community. Ken has hooked up with several local ball clubs, serving as a guest PA announcer, building a collection of hats fro...Show More
3) Episode 44 - Drew Block, Rochester Royals
Drew Block and I graduated a decade apart, 1999 (me) and 2009 (Drew), from the hallowed hallways of Rochester's Mayo High School. The other thing in common we have is a life around amateur baseball, a...Show More
4) Episode 43 - Andy Niese of the Chippewa Rivers League
Andy Niese has a wealth of experience in town baseball. Whether it was scanning the Eau Claire newspaper for box scores as a kid, breaking into the league with the Cadott Red Sox in the early 1990s, o...Show More
5) Episode 42 - Rising Stars of Hortonville
We spoke with a couple of the Hortonville Stars of the Dairyland League, Mike Bunkelman and Luke Baeman. The Stars have experienced a bit of a resurgence in the last few years, built on local talent a...Show More
6) Episode 41 - Gary Isensee, Sparta Miller & WBA
Gary Isensee has been the manager of Sparta Miller, near La Crosse, WI, for the better part of three decades now. In addition to serving in Sparta, Gary is currently the president of the Wisconsin Bas...Show More
7) Episode 40 - Brooks Maurer, Luverne Redbirds
When you were 13, did anyone call your mom to ask you to play in a town ball game? Me neither! Brooks Maurer started his career with the team in Atwater before heading to school and landing a teaching...Show More
8) Episode 39 - Jason Booth, Brookfield Bulldogs
For our holiday-week episode, we talked with Jason Booth of the Brookfield Bulldogs and Land O' Lakes League. We talked a little Christmas prep before getting into our own smorgasbord of topics around...Show More
9) Episode 38 - The Wells, Anoka Bucs Family
It can take a lot of hands to run a town ball team, and that's true of the Anoka Bucs too. What sets the Bucs apart, like some other notable town teams, is that it's a family affair. For this episode ...Show More
10) Episode 37 - Nate Cousins, Baseball 365
"Baseball 365" is two things in Minnesota town baseball - a class A team in Minneapolis' Park National League, and a great baseball shop carrying everything you need just off 494 and 35W in Bloomingto...Show More