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 #246: December 27, 2023

Melissa Ludtke (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)This week, our guest is Melissa Ludtke, pioneering sports writer and author whose efforts to cover the 1977 World Series and civil rights case against Major League Baseball led to a landmark legal decision ensuring equal access for reporters. Her new memoir, Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside, will publish in 2024. She was a reporter for Sports Illustrated, a correspondent for Time, and editor of Nieman Reports at Harvard University. Her other books include On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America and Touching Home in China: In Search of Missing Girlhoods. She was a Nieman Fellow and a Prudential Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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What’s Rob Reading?

Runnin’ Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals, by Eric VickreyRunnin’ Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals
By Eric Vickrey

“The 1982 St. Louis Cardinals played an entertaining style of baseball built on speed and defense. The roster was constructed and piloted by Whitey Herzog, a baseball visionary who tailored his team for the AstroTurf and spacious dimensions of Busch Stadium. This exhaustive account chronicles the Cardinals from Herzog’s rebuild to the final out of the Fall Classic. Hundreds of sources, including original interviews, were compiled to revisit a championship season and tell the backstories of an eclectic group of players who reached baseball’s pinnacle.”

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