The Baseball Lifer

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast Goodbye Bob Uecker

The Baseball Lifer Podcast Christmas show 2024

First, I offer congratulations to Guardians' broadcaster Tom Hamilton on winning the Ford Frick Award. Then, I share some of the highlights of his career. Then I share Jean Shepherd, the man behind "A Christmas Story" talking about broadcasting AAA ball just after World War II.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast 2025 Ford Frick Ballot show

I run down the 10 men whose names are in the running for the Ford Frick Award. The Hall of Fame gives this award every year for excellence in broadcasting. Where possible, I share highlights featuring the men on the ballot.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast, The 2024 World Series Recap

I go over the games and present the highlights of the newly finished World Series.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast 2024 World Series Special

In the tradition of "Point, Counterpoint", lifelong baseball fans Tony Candela of the Bronx and Mitch Pomerantz of Pasadena discuss the upcoming Yankees-Dodgers World Series. We open with a tribute to Fernando Valenzuela who passed away on Oct. 23, hours before the interview was recorded.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast League Championship Series show

I talk about the American and National LCS from where they started to where they are as I send out this podcast.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast, Division Series edition with Joe Marks

Joe Marks is a lifelong Phillies fan and contributor to "Sports Round Table", a podcast on which I am a panelist. He joins me on this show to talk about the series between the Mets and Phillies. I talked about the other division series. Another scheduled guest shot couldn't be aired due to technical difficulties at my end.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast Wild Card Week show

I discuss the 4 wild card series held between October 1 and 3. Before that, I shared some sound from the Mets' game on Sept. 30 which propelled them into the playoffs. Finally I discussed the upcoming Division Series.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast with Ro Martin September 28

ro Martin, AKA the stoned Genius makes his second appearance on the podcast to talk about both baseball and his unusual life style.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast with Anne Montgomery

The show opens with me talking about the amazing Shohei Ohtani and sharing the sound of his 3 home runs from an incredible game on Sept. 19. After that, I present an encore broadcast of an interview with sports official and commentator Anne Montgomery, one of the highlights of my first season on the air.

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The Baseball Lifer Podcast with Jim Lucas

Jim Lucas was the first sportscaster at college who was willing to face the challenge of working with a blind partner. Later, he and I became professional broadcasters together and spent 12 years in the minor leagues. We talk about his boyhood, how we started broadcasting and his latest baseball job as an umpire among other things.

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