Our Past Questions Of The Week
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S3:E15 - Can 1 pitch, depending on the outcome, make a difference in the legacy of player?
S3:E14 - Who is the greatest player never to win a World Series?
s3:e13 - aRE BASEBALL CURSES REAL? oR JUST A WAY FOR FANS TO HELP DEAL WITH THE HEARTBREAK OF LOSING?
S3:E11 - Send Us your Top Five Ranked third basemen.
S3:E10 - Where does Jack Morris' World Series Performance in 1991 rank among great World Series moments?
S3:E9 - Do fathers push their sons towards MLB out of love, or their own ego?
S3:E8 - If you were a pitcher, what's the one pitch (other than a fastball) that you would want in your tool box?
Se:E7 - Among the four players from our Deadball Files series, which one was the best?
S3:E6 - Did the 1951 NY Giants cheat during their historic comeback?
S3:E5 - Would you want your team's ace to throw 400 innings to help your team win?
S3:E4 - Who was to blame for the 1910 batting title fiasco? MLB, The St Louis Browns, Nap lajoie, Ty Cobb?
S3:E3 - Does the number of championships won make a player's value higher?
S3:E2 - If Baseball is truly a team sport, How much responsibility should one player shoulder when a team collapses?
S3:E1 - Does Tom Seaver or Cy Young, or both, make it in to your best 5-man rotation of all time?
Game 3 of the 2013 World Series ends on an obstruction call by Jim Joyce. To see the video on You Tube, click here. <---
Show Recaps
6/30/2026
Author Tim Newby is our guest and we discuss with him his book on Pete Browning, The Original Louisville Slugger.
And it's the final week of The World Series Rewind as we take a look at the 1986 Fall Classic between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox. Hint: It wasn't all on Buckner.
6/23/2026
Another week of The World Series Rewind as we jump ahead to 1979 and the We Are Family Pittsburgh Pirates championship season. More than just a great World Series, we look at the culture of America in 1979 and the way baseball ruled the day.
We also explore a significant moment in 1926 that set up one of the most memorable World Series and brings St Louis their first ever title.
6/16/2026
Leroy spends some time with author David Krell to discuss his book, 1978: Baseball & America In The Disco Era - a year of great baseball and classic American Culture.
The 1962 World Series was the topic of the third installment of the World Series Rewind limited-series. We look back into a monumental 7-Game battle between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees.
6/9/2026
Howard Camerik is our guest and he talks about his book The Curse of Carl Mays, a fiction novel with a twist on reality. He also discusses his own personal experiences with baseball throughout his life.
The World Series Rewind continues with Week 2: The 1948 World Series. A Classic matchup between two powerhouse teams with a plethora of story lines in this post-World
War II era.
6/2/2026
Jim Joyce blew one of the biggest calls in baseball history. On the anniversary of that day, we talk about that call, and the man himself.
We also kick off a limited series called The World Series Rewind, where we take a long look back at a handful of Fall Classics.
And Leroy adds a rant about the non-so-popular (or popular, depending on who you ask) apparel that MLB has added.
5/26/2026
In this week's episode, author Adam Henig is our guest.
Leroy talks with him about his biography Baseball's
Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore.
Plus John and Leroy take a look at Kansas City Royals Superstar Third baseman George Brett, #35 on Joe
Posnanski's Top 100 list.
5/19/2026
Author Marshall Garvey joins us to talk about Interstate '85, his compelling look back at the dramatic 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and theSt. Louis Cardinals.
John and Leroy cover A Story from Why We Love Baseball on the Jack Morris pitching performance in the 1991 World Series.
John talks about his dad's favorite baseball moments
from 1962.
5/16-18/2026 (Not a Recap, but a 3-Game Weekend for the baseball book club)
5/12/2026
John and Leroy discussed the career of Carl Yastrzemski, highlighted by Two momentous events: the wild signing process that his father commandeered, and his Triple Crown & MVP season in 1967.
Christian Sheppard joins us for an interview about his book, The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball, relating the game to human history.
5/5/2026
Author Lenny Levine IS OUR GUEST AND HE talks about his days in Brooklyn, NY - growing up in the shadow of Ebbets Field during the time of Jackie Robinson. His book, Diehard Fan is a murder mystery nOVEL that takes place during those golden days of baseball DURING ONE OF its MOST MEMORABLE SEASONS.
aLSO, John and Leroy discuss the inception of the slider into baseball through Tyler Kepner's book K.
Excerpt From The Show
So we would ask somebody sitting on the other side of the fence if we could borrow their ticket stubs for a second. And we would
come up and give them back. And they said, yeah, all right. So we would do that. And then we would go and show the ticket stubs and go into the general Admission section, which is like now the end of the third base, foul pole stands upper Deck.
That was now the beginning of the general admission. And from that point on, having gotten into the game free to start with, we
would just wind our way down to the seats, better seats and better seats and better seats and sit in them. And by the end of the
game, when people had left or whatever, we would wind up in the box seats, maybe right behind the visiting dugout. We were very entrepreneurial, me and my friends.
4/28/2026
Leroy's Hot Corner returns, this time for a deeply personal story about family and baseball, and the special memories the two can make together.
In the Deadball Files Finale, John and Justin talk about pitching phenom Tm keefe and legacy he left as one of the pioneers of pitching in baseball.
Author Tom Alesia is interviewed by Leroy as they discuss Tom's book Baseball Like It Oughta be and the attraction of collegiate summer baseball, specifically the madison mallards.
4/21/2026
The third week of The Deadball Files with Justin Renaldi we'll be discussing slugger Ed Delahanty.
John will make the argument of why Jim Thome belongs on The List of 100 of the all time greatest.
John and Leroy will take a long look at the 1951 NY Giants historic comeback that was capped by Bobby Thomson's dramatic playoff home run that sent them to the World Series........ but was it legit?
Excerpt From The Show
"It's the middle of August, and the Giants go on a tear and end up tying the Dodgers for the National League lead on the second to last day of the season. Then they both win. The Dodgers, by the way, almost lost that last game in Philadelphia.
It was a miracle they even won that game. But both teams win the final game on the last day of the regular season. So they're tied, and now they're gonna play a three-game playoff to determine who's gonna win the National League.
They split the first two games, and so the third game is at the Polo grounds, which is the home of the Giants.
That's right. And in the final game, Bobby Thomson, on the Giants, hits a walk-off home run to create what is arguably the most famous call in Major League Baseball history. Well, the call by Russ Hodges is absolutely, I think it's probably the single most iconic play call in baseball history."
4/14/2026
This week the Deadball Files continue with talks of pitching legend John Clarkson and his dominance during the 1890s.
Author Roger Lusby is our guest and he talks about his late brother Steve who began work on his book Searching For The Perfect Swing. Roger and his brother Tim pick up the pieces after Steve's death and finish the book in his honor.
Paul Dickson's Baseball Dictionary is one of The Baseball Book Club's favorite, and we dust off the robust and expansive tome to find more terms to
share with you.
