SABRcast with Rob Neyer

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast features insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game — and music from The Baseball Project.

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Neyer is a longtime baseball writer and editor for ESPN.com, SB Nation, and FoxSports.com. He began his career as a research assistant for groundbreaking baseball author Bill James and later worked for STATS, Inc. He has also written or co-written seven baseball books, including The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (with Bill James), winner of the Sporting News/SABR Baseball Research Award, and most recently Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game, winner of the 2019 CASEY Award.

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Donna MuscarellaEpisode #228: August 21, 2023

This week, our guest is Donna Muscarella, a SABR member, fourth-generation baseball enthusiast, and visual artist whose work includes photography and mixed media projects. Her artwork has been featured in Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts and the SABR Baseball Cards Blog. In 2021, she released a custom trading card set with her original photos of historic Hinchliffe Stadium in New Jersey, one of the few surviving Negro Leagues ballparks in America.

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What’s Rob Reading?

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments, by Joe PosnanskiWhy We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By Joe Posnanski

“Joe Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It’s Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is told from a unique perspective. Whether of a real fan who witnessed it, or the pitcher who gave up the home run, the umpire, the coach, the opposing player—these are fresh takes on moments so powerful they almost feel like myth. Posnanski’s previous book, The Baseball 100, portrayed the heroes and pioneers of the sport, and now, with his trademark wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and acute observations, he gets at the real heart of the game. From nineteenth-century pitchers’ duels to breaking the sport’s color line in the ’40s, all the way to the greatest trick play of the last decade and the slide home that became a meme, Posnanski’s illuminating take allows us to rediscover the sport we love—and thought we knew.”

Archived Episodes

Episode #227: Steve Gietschier (August 14, 2023)

Episode #226: Sean Kane (August 7, 2023)

Episode #225: Tribute to Tom Ruane (July 31, 2023)

Episode #224: Scott Bush (July 24, 2023)

Episode #223: Adam Darowski (July 17, 2023)

Episode #222: Alain Usereau (July 10, 2023)

Episode #221: Russell A. Carleton (July 3, 2023)

Episode #220: Sean Aronson (June 26, 2023)

Episode #219: Linda Pitmon and Steve Wynn of The Baseball Project (June 19, 2023)

Episode #218: The Only Rule Is It Has To Work panel with Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Theo Fightmaster (June 12, 2023)

Episode #217: Peanuts panel with Benjamin L. Clark, Luke Epplin, and Anika Orrock (June 5, 2023)

Episode #216: Jake Eisenberg (May 29, 2023)

Episode #215: Phil S. Dixon (May 22, 2023)

Episode #214: Jonathan Eig (May 15, 2023)

Episode #213: Michael Lewis (May 8, 2023)

Episode #212: J.J. Cooper (May 1, 2023)

Episode #211: Ryan McGee (April 24, 2023)

Episode #210: Baseball Films roundtable: Ellen Adair, Eric Gilde, Noah Gittell (April 17, 2023)

Episode #209: Ben Jedlovec (April 10, 2023)

Episode #208: Edwin Rodríguez (April 3, 2023)

Episode #207: Emma Baccellieri (March 27, 2023)

Episode #206: Michael Clair (March 20, 2023)

Episode #205: Tim Hagerty (March 13, 2023)

Episode #204: Miles Wolff (March 6, 2023)

Episode #203: Bill Brown (February 27, 2023)

Episode #202: Emma Tiedemann (February 20, 2023)

Episode #201: Clint Hurdle (February 13, 2023)

Episode #200: Lindsay Imber (February 6, 2023)

Episode #199: Jim Joyce (January 30, 2023)

Episode #198: Pat Neshek (January 23, 2023)

Episode #197: Mike Capps (January 16, 2023)

Episode #196: John McLaren (January 9, 2023)

Episode #195: Graig Kreindler (January 2, 2023)

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