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Join us in a special Black History Month episode as we sit down with Gerald Watkins, Executive Director of Rickwood Field. In this episode, we will delve into the rich history of America's oldest ballpark, home to the Birmingham Black Barons, as well as highlight the Negro Leagues and the pivotal role they played in shaping the landscape of America's favorite pastime as we know it today. Lastly, we'll get one of the first looks at the 2024 MLB Field of Dreams game to be played between the Giants and Cardinals on June 20, 2024 in honor of Juneteenth.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, friends! It's our first episode back and we had SO MUCH to cover. Let's play a game of roster roulette, shall we? In this episode, we take a trip around the divisions to bring you our favorite offseason moves every team has made. We have some grumblings, too, that may have something to do with the word DEFERRAL.
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If you thought you needed the pitch clock for a 3.5 hour baseball game, try a baseball game that lasts 3.5 days! A group of baseball players played a baseball game this summer that lasted for 100 consecutive hours while raising over $300,000 for charity. Join us live as we sit down with Guinness Book of World Records holder, Sean Harris, who participated in The Endless Game.
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The organ has become a cornerstone at ballparks, embodying the essence of America's favorite pastime. By harmonizing baseball with the echoes of bygone eras and contemporary tones, this musical tradition took root over 80 years ago at Wrigley Field on Chicago's north side. Today, the sounds of Cubs' Musical Maestro, John Benedeck echo through Wrigleyville. We invite you to join us as we go beyond the bleachers for a sit down conversation with John himself.
Where to Follow John:
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In this episode, we sit down with 11-time Emmy Award Winning Executive Producer and Content Creator, Rich Ciancimino, Co-host and Producer of The Mayor's Office with Sean Casey. "Chinch" is a recognized industry-wide for creative leadership and artistic innovation. His experience in production ranges from major National (ESPN), to Startup (MLB Network), to Local (Sportsnet, NY) environments. He’s also one of the industries leading New Media producers and was at the forefront of relaunching MLB Network’s “At-Home” coverage during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020. Rich attended Columbia University where he lettered in D1 Baseball and was the recipient of the 2000 Columbia University Baseball Award for outstanding leadership both on and off the field . He currently resides on Long Island with his wife Jess, his 2 dogs Bella and Macey, and his cat Stuart.
The Mayor's Office: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpDScjMFYYI7pQK4aedbuzQ
Where to follow:
X: @chinch4
Instagram: @chinch04
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Meet Suzy Fulton, host of the Bourbon & Baseball podcast! We have been wanting to bring Suzy on for sooo long because she is as dedicated to her Houston Astros as we are to our teams and she dishes up the perfect amount of sarcasm and laughter along with it. Additionally, the MLB hot stove is piping hot, and we're ready to dish on some of the latest plus where we think some of the biggest free agents will end up.
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Join the Babes for a fangirling episode featuring one of baseball's greatest contributors, Veronica Alvarez. Veronica is a four-time U.S. Women's National Baseball Team player, medalist, and the current team's manager. She has coached in the Oakland Athletics organization since 2019, and in 2022, she became the first female to manage for the Athletics' High-A affiliate Lansing Lugnuts. She is currently serving as their Latin Player Development Coach. She served as an instructor at the inaugural Girls Baseball Elite Development Invitational and has been an instructor at the MLB Trailblazer Series since it began in 2017. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Rod Dedeaux Coach of the Year award.
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The two winningest franchises in MLB are basically out of playoff contention. Those two teams? They're our teams (queue our best Kim K ugly cry). We'll be chatting about how to stay loyal to your team through the highs and the lows, what other players/teams we're dialing into heading into the postseason, and wrapping it up with a discussion around MLB's trending topics.
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Generations upon generations have enjoyed America's Favorite Pastime through the gates of Fenway Park. Opened April 20, 1912, Fenway is the second oldest park that still exists behind Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. Please join us for a walk through the park with a guided tour and history lesson from one of Fenway's finest guides, Matt Delaney!
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In celebration of our first Women in Baseball Week as the Babe's Babes, we decided to do a little something different with this episode. We invited three individuals—whom we consider to be Women in Baseball Week icons—to spend the hour with us. In this episode, you'll hear from Kelley Franco Throop, Jason Klein, and Perry Barber.
Kelley is a baseball media entrepreneur. Her company is called Three Inning Fan LLC. She is the host of her own podcast, “A Date in October with KFT”. Kelley has been a guest lecturer at the Baseball Hall of Fame and former baseball contributor on CNN’s Financial Network. By day, Kelley is a practicing attorney. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @threeinningfan to catch her “Three Inning Minute” videos, which feature one minute snippets about the legal, transactional, and nostalgic side of baseball.
Jason, as you know from Episode No. 8, is a writer and sports blogger with over twenty years of experience. He is the author of YES PEPPER, an empowering new book for girls who play baseball. Jason has always enjoyed sharing his passion for baseball with his two daughters. He coaches youth baseball and is an advocate for girls getting a fair opportunity in the game. When his call for Twitter followers to share their support for his daughter, Ava, who wanted to know if girls could play baseball went viral on Twitter, Jason’s push for equality garnered support from Major League Baseball, Little League International and USA Women’s Baseball. He was also featured on MLB Network, the YES Network and in the Washington Post. Follow Jason on Twitter @ByJasonKlein and @YesPepperBook.
Perry has been establishing a lot of "firsts" and "onlys" in baseball for over four decades. She’s the only woman so far to umpire major league exhibitions in both the U.S. and Japan, and one of very few women to umpire major league spring training games in the U.S. She’s the winner of the first SABR Women in Baseball Lifetime Achievement Award, nicknamed “The Dorothy” after revered researcher and writer Dorothy Seymour Mills, and is also a Jeopardy! champion, a Mensa member, an identical twin, a published author in her own right as well as the subject of numerous magazine articles, newspaper profiles, and books. And as if we didn't find her impressive already, in her former life as a singer/songwriter/guitarist, she was the opening act for Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Hall and Oates, and other music luminaries. In 2008 Perry assembled the first and (so far) only four-woman crew to umpire a major league spring training game. She was selected as an alternate umpire for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has taught umpiring to public school students in New York City while securing paying assignments for them with local associations, and is the first woman to have umpired in the Cape Cod League; this year (2023,) she is thrilled to note, two more women are umpiring in the CCL, ten years after she did. She’s a New York State Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, and her photograph is on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown with her name on a plaque on the wall next to it, but she’s not resting on her laurels; she still works tirelessly to recruit and train other women umpires in order to render the phrase "woman umpire" as redundant as "female podcaster" or "woman astrophysicist.” After more than forty years, Perry is still fighting not to be in a league of her own. She is on Twitter @perrybarber.
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The 2023 All-Star break is officially here! We've made it past the halfway mark (tear). In this episode, we revisited our preseason predictions as we took a trip around each of the six divisions and discussed what we were right about, what we were wrong about, what has surprised us most, and where things are at as we head into the second half of the season.
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This episode was so special for the Babes! We welcomed on special guest, Jessica Kleinschmidt. Jess is a baseball fan with Reno, Nev. roots residing in the Bay Area. She is the host of the new podcast "Short and to the Point" and is also a broadcaster with the Oakland A's Radio Network. She previously worked for MLB.com and NBC Sports Bay Area.
In this episode, the lovely Jess shared a little bit about the path she followed to get her where she is now in her career, the foresight she shared with her father when she was just a little girl about how she would one day be an A's broadcaster, what it was like to be front and center for the A's recent reverse boycott, a little bit of advice for the Babes, and what we can look forward to on her new podcast!
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Meet the Babes' fathers—the ones who inspired our love for the game of baseball and for our Yanks and Cards! In this episode, we each sat down individually with our father's to discuss the origins of their baseball fandom, their favorite baseball memories, and the current state of our teams. Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there and a special thanks to our dad’s, Dave, Rang, and Rob.
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When Jason Klein's daughter approached him in 2018 about whether she (or any girl) could play baseball in the boys league, he decided to take it to Twitter in hopes that his followers would show up with a few extra words of encouragement. Little did he know, the tweet would spark over 100,000 responses, including responses from the MLB, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Play Ball, Little League International, Baseball For All, Jessica Mendoza, Mo’ne Davis, and parents across the nation. Shortly thereafter, the Washington Post published a feature story on Jason and his daughter Ava, and the encouragement they received.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/03/03/a-young-girl-worried-baseball-was-only-for-boys-her-father-asked-twitter-for-help/
The overwhelming amount of responses Jason received from parents in similar situations left him wondering how many other little girls out there have had similar concerns, but didn’t have the support to overcome society’s stigmas. Jason decided to write a book to inspire young female ballplayers and in 2023, he released the book Yes Pepper, Girls Play Baseball, Too!
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The Babe's had the ABSOLUTE pleasure of hanging with The Sandlot's "Tommy Repeat Timmons" Shane Obedzinski - talk about living out our childhood dreams! We had a laundry list of questions for Shane about the filming of the Sandlot, what he's been up to since, and what's to come in his (and his castmates') near future. At the end, Shane quizzed us on our Sandlot knowledge and threw us a few Sandlot spoiler alerts.
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Jon Ousky is a tried and true fan of the oldest team in baseball, the Cincinnati Reds. He has seen 24...TWENTY FOUR.. Major League Baseball parks with his dad.
In this episode, Jon gives us a few tips on sticking with your team through the good, the bad, and the ugly, he discusses how he and his dad will be crossing three more parks off the list this summer, and he gives us a few recommended baseball reads!
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Opening Day 2023 is just DAYS away! In this episode, we give you our predictions, our hot takes, and what we're most looking forward to seeing in each of the MLB divisions. To round it out, we give you a few updates on the World Baseball Classic and Madds' trip to Spring Training!
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In this episode, we introduce you to our special guest, John Kovach! John is a baseball archivist, historian, and museum director who curated over 200 artifacts for the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Museum Women in Baseball Exhibit. Fun fact about John...two of his middle school teachers played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that inspired the movie many of us know and love: A League of Their Own.