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The World Series is a podcast series exploring one hundred twenty two years of baseball's championship history from nineteen oh three to twenty twenty five. Hosted by the thunderous Marty Sinclair, the series chronicles the Fall Classic's evolution from uncertain experiment to cultural institution. Episode one covers the origins through nineteen sixty nine, including the Black Sox scandal and integration. Episode two explores nineteen seventy through two thousand, featuring free agency, labor strikes, and dynasty teams. Episode three examines two thousand one to today, covering curse breaking ...

They shouldn't have tear gassed best-selling (bald) author Adam Fletcher. It ruined his supposedly normal holiday in Istanbul, made him curious, and began a quest to visit places everyone else is trying to escape from, and tourists don't normally go to. In this hilarious travel memoir, he'll enter a blizzard in China armed with only biscuits; pose as a scientist to sneak into Chernobyl; be chased by Croatian police boats en route to Liberland (the world's newest country); become a reluctant diving board star in a North Korean water park, and much more.

There have been 36 winners of the men’s and women’s world championship so far, since the events began in 1976. Each player has been on a squash journey beginning when they first picked up a racket to later lifting the title. Now, they are telling their story to the World Squash Library in a series of ‘My Journey’ podcasts as a new resource for the sport now and into the future. ‘Champions are generously giving their time to talk about their start, development, challenges and successes. To hear them from their own lips gives a real insight’, commented Library founder Andrew Shelley.

The second collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer’s daughter, James Herriot thinks he’s finally got himself sorted. But life as a...

Shane Vittorino reports on his life after winning the 2008 World Series with the Phila Phillies. Shane, a three time Golden Glove winner, now coaches his teenage son. Interviewed at the American Century Championship at the Edgewood Tahoe golf course, Vittorino also discusses his play at the Lake Tahoe event.

Chase Utley, 2008 World Series Champion, amassed Hall of Fame stats during his 13 year career with the Phila Phillies. Discussing golf at the American Century Championship at the Edgewood Tahoe course in this 2024 podcast episode, Chase also reflects on his MLB career. In 2008 he hit 33 HRs with 177 hits. He was a six-time All-Star Game participant as voted by the fans. In 2009 he amassed 23 stolen bases. He recently took on the role as MLB Ambassador and lived in England to promote baseball throughout the region.

Jayson Werth, interviewed at the 2024 American Century Championship, helped lead the Phila Phillies to the 2008 MLB World Series victory. In 2024 his horse, Dornach, won the Belmont Stakes. Werth describes the horse's finish in the Kentucky Derby and better break in the Belmont. Jayson also describes his play at the 2024 at Tahoe's American Century Championship and how golf got him involved in horse racing. He also talks about his MLB stats and shoes in the MLB Hall of Fame.

For over half a century, landmark natural history series Living World has provided an inspiring introduction to the flora and fauna of Great Britain and beyond. Filmed on location at key ecological sites, it sees BBC wildlife presenters joined by guest experts for enthusiastic discussions and close encounters with our native wildlife. These classic archive programmes have all been specially selected by Chris Packham, who introduces each episode and gives us an overview of the places, people and species featured on the show.

Listen to games of the 2024 Connie Mack World Series play-by-play coverage from Ricketts Park on KSJE. *New This Year* Also included are the games from the 2024 AABC City Tournament (July 8-12, 2024) to determine the host team for this year’s World Series!

Discover the nearly unbelievable true story of how a goofy catchphrase spoken by a coach's dying daughter inspired the 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates in game seven of the National League Championship Series and later became a sign from heaven to a grieving family at the end of game seven of the 1997...

The perfect listen for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot’s much-loved books, with insights into his life and work from his children Rosie and Jim. With astute observations and boundless humour, country vet Herriot...

From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series—a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the...

As Donald Honig points out in his introduction, "Every World Series in itself is a tale with beginning, middle, and end, and because there must be a winner, there must be a hero." Tales of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Sandy Koufax, and Willie Mays are related by the star players who knew them. Those players recall vivid moments from their World Series games, stretching from 1912 to 1974.

Every summer, college baseball teams from around the nation come to Omaha, Nebraska, to play pure move-the-man-over, run-manufacturing baseball in a series that's part college bowl game, part county fair. In the spirit of 3 Nights in August and The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, veteran sports writer Ryan McGee goes behind the scenes, into the stands, and onto the field to reveal an exciting yet personal look at one of the hottest sports championships in the country - the College World Series. In 2008, the 10-day, eight-team tournament was the scene of one of the greatest series in its illustrious history.

In The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball, author Christian Sheppard interweaves Homer’s epics with glorious stories from the green fields of America’s pastime, celebrating Achilles’ courage and Odysseus’ cunning along with the virtues of Hall of Fame players such as Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth and of great teams such as the 2004 Red Sox and the 2016 Cubs. Along the way, Sheppard humorously recollects trying to raise his baby daughter true to the teachings of ancient myth and his beloved game.

Critically acclaimed writer Tom Adelman is hailed as a renegade by the Village Voice Literary Supplement for his aggressive, no-holds-barred style. The Long Ball is his dynamic re-telling of baseball's thrilling 1975 season.

Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. When twenty-eight-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. took over in 1944, the Phillies had won only a single National League title...

Packed with "compelling inside stories" (Chicago Tribune), Teammate is the inspiring memoir from "Grandpa Rossy," the veteran catcher who became the heart and soul of the 2016 Chicago Cubs championship team and was named manager in 2019. In 2016 the Cubs snapped a 108-year curse, winning the...

Geoffrey Clark and Lucas Mitzel take you inside the events of every World Series. No major American sport has the history our national pastime does, so prepare to take a trip back in time in this comprehensive look at baseball's yearly ultimate event.

In 1985, The Observer magazine sent Douglas Adams to Madagascar to look for the exotic and potentially extinct aye-aye lemur. There he met zoologist Mark Carwardine, and together they made a radio pilot about their travels, In Search of the Aye-Aye. This led to a hugely popular radio series, Last Chance to See, later adapted as a best-selling book. Douglas Adams died in 2001, but his friend Stephen Fry took his place for a follow-up 20th anniversary television series, broadcast on BBC Two in 2009.