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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Current Episode

Episode #237: October 23, 2023

Eddie FriersonThis week, it’s part 2 of our interview with Eddie Frierson, an actor, broadcaster, baseball coach, author, and SABR member. He has performed his acclaimed one-man play Matty: An Evening With Christy Mathewson at multiple SABR conventions, the Baseball Hall of Fame, and many other venues for more than 35 years. Through the Mathewson Foundation, he has republished many of the New York Giants star’s classic books and articles. He played college baseball at UCLA, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts. He is a founding company member of Nevada Shakespeare In The Park and he has hundreds of credits in film, television, audiobooks, and animated series. Click here to listen to Part 1.

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What’s Rob Reading?

The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams, by Adam LazarusThe Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
By Adam Lazarus

“It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men—already experts in their fields—crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John Glenn was an ambitious operations officer with fifty-nine World War II combat missions under his belt. His wingman was Ted Williams, the two-time American League Triple Crown winner who, at the pinnacle of his career, had been inexplicably recalled to active service in the United States Marine Corps. Together, the affable flier and the notoriously tempestuous left fielder soared into North Korea, creating a death-defying bond. Although, over the next half century, their contrasting lives were challenged by exhilarating highs and devastating lows, that bond would endure.”

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