Roadside Baseball
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Chris Epting, author of best selling book Roadside Baseball takes you on a weekly journey to learn about the places and people that make baseball history worth re-living.

The Hall Ball

Baseball historian Ralph Carhart's remarkable journey to pay tribute to Hall of Famers in the form of one special baseball will soon be a book. We tal...
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Picture Perfect

Renowned photographer Jean Fruth has an innate gift for capturing the game of baseball through her lens. Her new book, "Grassroots Baseball: Where Leg...
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The Baseball Traveler

Graham Knight has been visiting ballfields for decades. He's been to hundreds of them, and shares his impressions and reflections at baseballpilgrimag...
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Caught Stealing

He's never really told this story before, but back in the 1950s the kid who ran the manual outfield scoreboard at D.C's Griffith Stadium saw something...
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Every picture tells a story

Over more than five years, baseball fan Ron Bolton has built a huge social media following by sharing vintage images on his Twitter page "Old Time Bas...
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The Birth of The Curse

Roadside Baseball location referenced in this episode: 1. Gate of Heaven cemetery, Valhalla NY  2. Griffith Park Golf Course, Los Angeles
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A Death at Home Plate

Roadside baseball locations referenced in the episode:   Former site of League Park, Cleveland Former site of the Polo Grounds, New York Former site o...
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Introduction: Roadside Baseball

Award winning author Chris Epting, is bringing stories from his best selling book Roadside Baseball to the show weekly. More detail. More history. Mor...
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