Stealing Home

The games within the games — the card games, the simulations, and fantasy — are all highlighted in Episode 8 of Stealing Home.

We start off by talking to some old friends of mine and how they spent a summer trading off responsibilities for making a fictional Cardinals (or maybe Royals) team a World Series Champion in Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball.

Then I talk with Brad Cook, who’s in charge of marketing and PR for Out of the Park Developments. They are the makers of Out of the Park Baseball, possibly the most addicting sports game around.

And writer Carson Cistulli conducts an interview with a fictitious player from his simulation team.

Astros manager Bo Porter, for taking so much on the chin already this season, is the MVP of My Heart.

Music:

Issues, Wizebeats
Fastest, Arthur Blair

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Books are one of the best ways to immerse yourself in baseball, and in Episode 7, we’ll discuss many of the best baseball books around.

After the news with Chris Cwik, author Tim Brown talks to me about co-authoring Imperfect with Jim Abbott, a book about the pitcher’s amazing rise to prominence in baseball.

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In this episode of Stealing Home, the subjects of art and baseball intersect.

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In this episode of Stealing Home we take a peak at the uglier side of baseball, specifically violence.

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In episode 4 of Stealing Home, we look at different fields of science, and how they intersect with baseball.

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For episode 3, we go international, and look at baseball in different countries of the world.

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In this episode, we explore baseball’s long and storied relationship with music.

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In the inaugural episode of Stealing Home, we look at a topic near and dear to every baseball fan’s heart, the numbers. We learn them, we memorize them, we obsess over them, we compare them. They are the glue that holds baseball together throughout the years.

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