Cover the Bases; Insights from Baseball Authors

As many of you know, we post a daily scoreboard that represents a batter by batter account of a Legendary Game in baseball history.  If you go back to April 7, 2008 on this site, you will find a post with the following quote;...

On the eve of the 2011 baseball season, it is a great privilege to have as a guest on the Cover the Bases podcast Josh Wilker, the author of Cardboard Gods; An All American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616200693/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballisms-20&linkC...

Do you know how hard it is for a pitcher to win 300 Major League Baseball games?  Just the math alone can explain how amazing the feat actually is.  In order to win 300 games, a pitcher must win at least 20 games over 15 seasons or conversely have 15 w...

(http://baseballisms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Major-League-Bride.jpg)With great pleasure, we welcome Kathleen Lockwood to the Cover the Bases (http://baseballisms.com/category/podcasts) podcast.  She is the author of Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark (http://base...

(http://baseballisms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Waiting-for-the-Cubs.jpg)Avid #Cubs fan Floyd Sullivan introduces us to his entire multi-generational family of "Cubbed-Up" baseball fans, in his book Waiting for the Cubs: The 2008 Season, the Hundred-Year Slump and One Fan's Lifelong Vigil (http...

We are pleased to welcome Mike Lynch back on the Cover the Bases podcast (http://baseballisms.com/category/cover-the-bases). Mike is the founder of the Seamheads.com (http://www.seamheads.com/) web site, as well as the author of It Ain’t So: A Might Have Been History of the White Sox in 1919 and B...

I cannot understate how fortunate I feel to have had a chance to speak with Dirk Hayhurst (http://twitter.com/TheGarfoose) on the Cover the Bases (http://baseballisms.com/category/cover-the-bases) podcast. His book The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (http://baseballi...

Hall of Fame careers like that of Pittsburgh Pirates (http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=pit) third baseman Pie Traynor can often be overlooked.  The lack of video imagery, demonstrating the skill and style by which the player performed tends to relegate the career to historical archi...

Note: We must apologize in advance for the sound quality on this audio recording.  We attempted some different phone options but had to settle on this.  This conversation about the book The Imperfect Diamond is so good that we decided to release the podcast as is...

A Voice for the Braves for 33 years, Pete Van Wieren has seen the highs and lows of a franchise that transformed baseball in Atlanta.  Since retiring after the 2008 season, Pete has written a book called Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball...