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 #79: September 28, 2020

Bill Henderson (COURTESY PHOTO)This week’s guest is Bill Henderson, author of Game Worn Guide to MLB Jerseys and proprietor of the MLB Dream Shop, where he focuses on restoring and customizing MLB jerseys of all kinds since 1970. Uni Watch author Paul Lukas has called Henderson’s book “seminal” and “the most authoritative product of its type.” Henderson lives near Philadelphia, where he is an international marketing executive with a specialization in the pharmaceutical industry, focused around drug distribution and data privacy.

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What’s Rob Reading?

Center Field on Fire, by Dave PhillipsCenter Field On Fire: An Umpire’s Life with Pine Tar Bats, Spitballs, and Corked Personalities
By Dave Phillips with Rob Rains

“Major-league umpire Dave Phillips recalls thirty-two years of umpiring in baseball’s major leagues, including Disco Demolition Night, the Pine Tar Game, and the 1979 umpire strike. Phillips was also in uniform during 1994’s “Batgate” during which he confiscated Albert Belle’s suspect bat and subsequently became the victim of one of baseball’s most notorious crimes. Phillips had legendary run-ins with the likes of Earl Weaver and Billy Martin — the most memorable of which came in the George Brett Pine Tar Game in 1983 — and he was the first umpire to catch famed spitballer Gaylord Perry in the act.”

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