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354: Sports Phone - With Scott Orgera and Howie Karpin

Jul 29, 2024

New York sports broadcast veterans Scott Orgera and Howie Karpin ("976-1313: How Sports Phone Launched Careers and Broke New Ground") join to help us wax nostalgic about the ground-breaking 1970s telephone service Sports Phone.

From the dust jacket of "976-1313":

"Sports Phone set out to change the way...

353.7: The NHL’s Atlanta Flames (& More!) – With Dan Bouchard [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

Jul 22, 2024

[One last dip into the vault before a flood of new episodes beginning next week; from 2020, our revealing conversation with a pro hockey great - and Atlanta Flames original!}

For 1970s-era NHL hockey fans who remember the eight-year adventure known as the Atlanta Flames, few are likely to forget Dan Bouchard. A...

353.6: NASL Soccer's Chief Architect Clive Toye [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

Jul 15, 2024

[By popular request, an archive re-release from August 2018, featuring our extraordinary conversation with one of the central figures of the original North American Soccer League - from its chaotic formation in 1968 to its untimely demise in 1985.]

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Soccer America columnist (and Episode #6 guest) Paul...

353.5: The Senior Professional Baseball Association - With David Whitford [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

Jul 8, 2024

[An archive re-release favorite from September 2017, featuring one of professional baseball's most enigmatic leagues!]

Inc. Editor-at-Large David Whitford (Extra Innings: A Season in the Senior League) joins host Tim Hanlon to retrace his journalistic odyssey covering the inaugural season of the...

353: The NASL v. US Soccer/MLS Case - With Steven Bank

Jul 1, 2024

Most US and Canadian domestic soccer fans are certain that the second incarnation of the North American Soccer League (2011-17) officially met its untimely demise in early 2018, just a few months after the first-year San Francisco Deltas beat the New York Cosmos in the 2017 Soccer Bowl - and amidst a seemingly...