Irish Baseball Podcast

Rick Becker, host of the Irish Baseball Podcast, talks with former New York Post baseball reporter Ken Davidoff who is one of the co-authors for "101 Lessons from the Dugout." This book is designed to help young...

Mother Jones was born in Ireland. Her efforts organizing labor groups in the United States made a big impact on workers' rights to the present day. In "Kids on Strike!" author Susan Campbell Bartolletti covers an...

Bill Barry has worked hard to commemorate the lives of the working-class people in Baltimore who started a labor movement that rippled through the United States in the late-19th Century. Most of these railroad workers...

Mark Warren is an historian who used his knowledge of Billy the Kid's real life to write a fictional story about the legend of the Old West. Billy the Kid was another key figure in American history with Irish roots...

Tony Bucher and Paul Cunnie represent the United Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco in this week's episode of the podcast. Learn about the influence of the Irish in the Bay Area and hear about the disappointment...

We continue our look at Irish immigrants and Irish Americans who have made an impact on the United States as we prepare to celebrate the country's 250th anniversary. Commodore John Barry was an important part of the...

Rick Becker, host of the Irish Baseball Podcast, talks with Scott Bush about everything that SABR has to offer. Bush is SABR's chief executive officer, and loves talking about the history of the game and why he thinks...

Tara McCarthy has done a lot of research on Irish American and Irish immigrant women in the 1880s-1920s and the impact they had on Irish Nationalism, labor activism, and women's suffrage. She is on this week's episode...

"Gettysburg Eddie" Plank is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and was one of the stars of baseball in the early years of the 20th Century. While Plank was respected in his day, his legacy hasn't lasted for...

Ben Anderson takes real aspects of Irish, Scottish, and Norse folklore and uses them for his series of fantasy books. The McGunnegal Chronicles started as a way to share his Irish heritage with his children, but the...

Paul Zwirecki is the external relations officer for SABR. He will join host Rick Becker to talk about analytics, history, and so much more.

Scott Crawford of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame is returning to the Irish Baseball Podcast to talk about the Blue Jays run to the World Series, the recent Netflix documentary about the Expos, and the excitement in...

Dirk Baker has written a book about Kid Gleason. Most famous for his time as the manager of the 1919 Chicago White Sox who threw the World Series, Gleason had an illustrious career as a player, coach, and manager in...

All five of the Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa were lost when their ship was blown up in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The town of Waterloo still does a lot to preserve their legacy. Pat Kinny, oral...

Sammie Samuels will be celebrating a different piece of Irish American history every month this year at the Irish American Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the United States. Many of our...