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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Episode #173: August 1, 2022

Curt BloomThis week’s guest is Curt Bloom, the longest tenured radio broadcaster in Birmingham Barons history. He has been calling baseball, basketball, and football games for more than three decades and joined the Barons’ radio booth in 1992. He called every game of Michael Jordan’s minor-league baseball career in 1994 and is known for his “Gonzo!” home run calls. During the fall, he is the voice of college football and basketball for Samford University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham for ESPN Plus. He was inducted into the Birmingham Barons Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Southern League Hall of Fame in 2018. In July, he was called up to broadcast his first regular-season Major League Baseball game with the Chicago White Sox. He has also called spring training games with the White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, and Montreal Expos.

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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original, by Howard BryantRickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
By Howard Bryant

Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he’s scored more runs than any player ever. “If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you’d have two Hall of Famers,” the baseball historian Bill James once said. But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson’s is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave rise to so many legendary athletes like him. And it’s a story of a sea change in sports, when athletes gained celebrity status and Black players finally earned equitable salaries. Henderson embraced this shift with his trademark style, playing for nine different teams throughout his decades-long career and sculpting a brash, larger-than-life persona that stole the nation’s heart. Now, in the hands of critically acclaimed sportswriter and culture critic Howard Bryant, one of baseball’s greatest and most original stars finally gets his due.

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Episode #158: Jim Allen (April 18, 2022)

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Episode #155: Dale Scott (March 28, 2022)

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