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A Game of Millimeters
Baseball is unique in that the smallest margins of error can determine which team wins or loses games or even World Series championships. In this podcast, I dissect two memorable and minute events that affected the outcome of the 1962 and the 1968 World Series. Get ready to examine them through the lens of a…
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The Anatomy of a Half-Inning
This podcast examines in detail the events and circumstances of bottom of the sixth inning of the 2001 Little League World Series Championship Game between Apopka, Florida and Tokyo, Japan. I watched this game live, and I relate, here and now, my observations at the time as a way to offer an alternative approach to…
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Tender Youth Arms
I was an assistant coach on a travel team in Southeast Michigan from 1999 to 2003, and one of our main priorities was to protect the arms of our young pitchers — with large measures of communication, conditioning, and common sense. This podcast goes into some detail about our approach to preventing even sore arms,…
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Spectator Interference: Why?
In this podcast, I make an appeal for those who sit in the first row of a ballpark to let the ball come to them. There have been several famous and countless not-so-famous incidents of spectator interference that have possibly affected the outcomes of entire post seasons. I mention both and also make some recommendations…
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John McGraw, Camlio Doval, and John Hiller
A text with a friend who is a fan of the San Francisco Giants inspired this podcast that talks about John McGraw’s style of baseball, which has gone the way of the maskless football helmet, the demotion to Triple A of the National League’s 2023 save leader, 27-year-old Camlio Doval, and a comparison of Doval’s…
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Who is to Blame for Batting Gloves?
This listener-requested topic spawned a podcast that burrows into several different rabbit holes, from how to grip the bat correctly to a discussion on the revenue-generating power of the batting-glove industry, to a Monet painting that was on display in The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas. This journey into the logic…