Mar 29, 2021
Author Dan Taylor ("Lights, Camera, Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball") joins the pod for an in-depth look at one of baseball's most uniquely inventive teams - known for its star-studded celebrity ownership structure (including the likes of Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, George Burns, and...
Mar 22, 2021
International Tennis Hall of
Fame Museum director Doug Stark (The SPHAs: The Life and Times of
Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team) joins this week's 'cast
for an authoritative exploration of one of his first loves - pro
basketball's pioneering Philadelphia SPHAs.
Originally organized in 1918 as
a local amateur team by...
Mar 15, 2021
Youngstown State professor Denis
Crawford ("The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett: Maverick
Entrepreneur of North American Sports") joins the 'cast
for a jam-packed deep dive into the life of one of the most
underrated, yet enormously influential pro sports figures of the
1970s/80s.
A third-generation scion
of...
Mar 8, 2021
We fire up the GPS for a trek
back to the City of Brotherly Love this week for a fond - but
decidedly one-of-a-kind - remembrance of Philadelphia's oddly
beloved "octorad"-styled outdoor sports mecca known as Veterans
Stadium.
Memoirist, Philly native and
actual (Vietnam War) vet Tom Garvey ("The
Secret Apartment")...
Mar 1, 2021
Arizona State calculus professor
Scott Surgent ("The Complete World Hockey Association, 11th
Edition"; "The World Hockey Association Fact Book")
joins this week to discuss his personal passion project of
documenting everything statistical from the fascinatingly ephemeral
World Hockey Association - despite never having...