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Chicago has secured the National League’s best record, but will they celebrate their first world series win in a century? Also, racing aboard the Schooner American Eagle, and a conversation with Michael Rosenberg, author of War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest. Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/09/onlyagame_0927.mp3
This week on Only A Game, Yankees fans bid farewell to their old Bronx ballyard and prepare for the new one right next door. Also, remembering the Dallas Cowboys’ wild and often uncontrollable ride in the nineties, and 1936 Olympian Jo Warren Madden recalls the Berlin Games.
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This week on Only A Game, the Tampa Bay Rays attempt to hold on to a shot at the postseason. Also, the struggling sport of harness racing trots along with help from the slots, rolling with American lawn bowlers, and a conversation with a soccer dad preparing the nest for emptiness. Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/09/onlyagame_0913.mp3Continue reading »
Can seventeen million Frenchmen be wrong? About playing petanque, I mean? This week on Only A Game, we’ll find out. Also, ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian will tell us what’s up with the Tampa Bay Rays, which is pretty much everything, and who’s the best of the worst in the National League West. Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/07/onlyagame_0712.mp3
Fans of baseball will recognize that "the black" in baseball terms refers to the outer edge of home plate. That’s exactly what the two pitchers featured in John Feinstein’s Living On The Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season, try to do during every game they play. Feinstein details a season spent with Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine and their attempts to keep their pitches right on the black.
This week on Only A Game, a conversation with Philadelphia Phillies catcher Chris Coste, who became a Major League rookie at 33. Also, a New York museum pays tribute to Native American baseball players and a preview of the NBA Playoffs.Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/04/onlyagame_0419.mp3Continue reading »
This week on "Only A Game," a look at the recent Olympic protests and what they could mean for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. Also, how a sibling rivalry spilled over into sneaker wars, and the Detroit Tigers’ 138 million dollar roster: toothless, fangless and feckless? Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/04/onlyagame_0412.mp3
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This week on Only A Game, a flash forward to the Final Fours for the fellows and for the females. Also, Cubs fans anticipate a possible Wrigley renaming or renovation, and Pi-loving math geeks assemble for a contest …not for gorging, but for recitation.
The defending World Champion Red Sox just wrapped up a two game set with the Oakland A’s across the world in Japan. Alan Klein, author of Growing the Game, says that such an international venture should be just the beginning for Major League Baseball. Bill Littlefield reviews the book and explores the possibilities of a globalized game.
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This Week on Only A Game, a report from Japan, where the Red Sox and A’s recently opened the 2008 Major League Baseball Season. Also, an NCAA Hoops update, and the Sons of Ben Franklin declare their love for Philadelphia’s MLS squad just two short years before their first game.
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