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Mike Trout has hit home runs in seven consecutive games, now just one short of the Major League record. Don Mattingly is one of three men who hold the record of eight consecutive games. In this encore presentation of a 2017 “30 With Murti” podcast, Mattingly and others who were there reflect on what was the 30th anniversary of the streak, one of th…
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Rickey Henderson, one of the most impactful baseball players ever, spent parts of five amazing but controversial seasons with the Yankees in the 1980's. We look back at Rickey's "Yankees Years" with Howard Bryant, best-selling and award-winning author of the new biography, "Rickey: The Life and Legend of An American Original," from Mariner Books.…
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Paul O'Neill is one of the most revered Yankees of the last 30 years, and he shares stories from his life in baseball in the new book "Swing And A Hit: Nine Innings of What Baseball Taught Me," co-written with Jack Curry and available everywhere May 24th from Grand Central Publishing. On the latest "30 With Murti," Sweeny talks with O'Neill about s…
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Abdi Abdirahman is the kind of person they make inspirational movies about. After escaping war-torn Somalia as a teenager, Abdi has gone on to become one of the most accomplished American distance runners this century, representing the USA in five different Olympic Games. Hear his story on the latest 30 With Murti podcast.…
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Former Major Leaguer Chris Dickerson is making a difference after baseball. The ex-Yankees outfielder leads "Players For The Planet" to promote conservation efforts and "More Than Baseball" to help struggling minor leaguers. He discusses those organizations, plus his history with MLB Players' Union in the last two CBA negotiations, on the latest 30…
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Former Mets and Phillies first baseman Rico Brogna was a union player representative during the last work stoppage in baseball - the disastrous players' strike of 1994-95. These days he's a minor league manager with his eyes on a big league job in the near future. Brogna joins Sweeny Murti on the latest 30 With Murti podcast for his thoughts on the…
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Dennis Quaid has been in some of the most memorable sports movies ever made, including The Rookie and Any Given Sunday, and plays Rams coach Dick Vermeil in an upcoming film about Super Bowl champion Kurt Warner. He's also an accomplished musician and will be performing in the New York area Nov 1-3. Quaid talks music, sports, and movies in the late…
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In her family, Amber Sabathia is now the one busy making a name for herself in baseball. The wife of former Yankees great CC Sabathia is now a certified agent at CAA and busy trying to make the dreams of other young players come true. In the latest episode of "30 With Murti," Amber chats with Sweeny Murti about this new chapter in her life and how …
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In January 1991 WFAN aired a 30th anniversary special on the 1961 Yankees hosted by Howie Rose. Now 60 years since the '61 Yankees made history, this special episode of 30 With Murti features parts of that show from recently unearthed tapes. There is also a new interview with Howie Rose on his early baseball idols Mantle & Maris, and the true highl…
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Thirty years ago this summer, HBO premiered the wonderful baseball documentary "When It Was A Game," made entirely from full color home movies of baseball immortals from the 1930's, '40's and '50's. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, George Roy, the executive producer, talks about the treasure chest of footage that made this film and its impact…
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Rohan Handa is one of many college and high school baseball players eager for the upcoming MLB draft. What makes Handa, a 21-year old left-handed pitcher from Yale, unique is his background as an Indian-American and his development in the last year despite losing two college seasons to COVID. Here is an interesting look at a potential future major …
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Critics of baseball have pointed to launch angle and other developments in the last decade that have eroded the major league product. But have those elements also trickled down to the high school and college levels of the sport? We tackle that and more with Princeton Head Baseball Coach and former major league catcher Scott Bradley (@ScottBradley9)…
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Chris Chambliss helped the Yankees win 3 pennants and 2 World Series as a clutch-hitting first baseman in the 1970's. He later became hitting coach for the next Yankees dynasty that won 4 World Series titles from 1996-2000. With Hitting Coaches and their roles under increased scrutiny lately, Chambliss joins Sweeny Murti on the latest "30 With Murt…
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Neil Walker's 12-year MLB career included time with both the Yankees and the Mets. The now-retired Walker joins Sweeny on 30 With Murti to reflect on his career, give a unique perspective on how the game has changed from his debut in 2009 to now -- and tell the goosebump-inducing story of his family's emotional connection to Roberto Clemente.…
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Dave Parker was one of the most feared hitters of his generation, and on the latest 30 With Murti, Parker discusses his early years, racial tensions, and his time as one of the true superstars in the game...as well as his former battle with drugs and his current battle with Parkinson's Disease. The new book "Cobra: A Life of Baseball and Brotherhoo…
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Peter King is the preeminent NFL writer of our time, but he actually began his career covering baseball for the Cincinnati Enquirer in the early 1980's. On this episode of "30 With Murti," Peter discusses his childhood days as a Red Sox fan in the 1960's, plus his early days in the business covering the last days of The Big Red Machine in Cincinnat…
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Lisa Fernandez is one of the most decorated softball players in history, and as a three-time Olympian, she has had some experience with the international tiebreaker that is being used this year by MLB in extra innings: the automatic runner at second base to start the inning. On this episode of the "30 With Murti" podcast, Fernandez discusses her he…
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WFAN went on the air 33 years ago next month, and the man who brought 24-hour Sports Talk Radio to life in 1987 is Jeff Smulyan, the Chairman of the Board of Emmis Broadcasting. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Sweeny Murti chats with Smulyan about the early days of WFAN, as well as his three year tenure as owner of The Seattle Mariners from …
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Minor league baseball's season has been turned upside down and it has nothing to do with the labor dispute on the major-league side. For a look at how the Coronavirus shutdown has affected one of the New York-area minor league teams, Sweeny Murti speaks with Steve Gliner, President of the Hudson Valley Renegades, on the latest "30 With Murti" podca…
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Yogi Berra was one of the greatest Yankees ever, one of the greatest baseball players ever, and lived a classic American success story. His life is the subject of the new biography "Yogi: A Life Behind The Mask," by Jon Pessah and published by Little Brown and Company. Pessah spent nearly four years writing the book and he discusses some of the mor…
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There are a lot of challenges to scouting and completing a draft after the high school and college baseball seasons were shut down almost three months ago. To discuss the issues surrounding this year's draft, listen here to Sweeny Murti's conversation with the Yankees Vice President of Domestic Amateur Scouting, Damon Oppenheimer, on the latest "30…
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Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre, along with his wife Ali, formed the Safe at Home Foundation in 2002, aimed at stopping the cycle of domestic violence. For almost three months now, stay at home restrictions have put countless children at risk due to violent situations in their own homes. Joe Torre joins Sweeny Murti in this episode of the "30 With M…
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Don Roy King calls Saturday Night Live "an adrenaline rush" similar to a being a quarterback. And he should know. He's the man calling all the plays, the director of SNL since 2006. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, King takes us through a career spanning seven decades, punctuated by becoming just the fourth director in the history of NBC's le…
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Going up against Michael Jordan on the basketball court was a challenge to say the least. Staring at him in the batters box--in 1994 when Jordan stepped away from basketball to play baseball for the AA Birmingham Barons--presented a challenge of a different kind. And it certainly wasn't easy. What's it like to brush back the great Michael Jordan on…
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Now in his fourth decade as a New York sportswriter, Peter Botte combines his love of baseball and pop culture in the pages of the New York Post. Now he has written an entertaining history of the Yankees whittled down to "The Big 50: The Men And Moments That Made The New York Yankees." It's available now from Triumph Books. In the latest "30 With M…
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Twenty-four years ago he was 12-year old Jeffrey Maier, the kid who reached over the fence and turned Derek Jeter's fly ball into a home run that changed a playoff game and maybe the course of the 1996 Yankees. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Sweeny chats with 36-year old Jeff Maier, a married father of three, who recounts his brush with fam…
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This episode of “30 With Murti” could be subtitled “Sweeny on Sweeney." Actor D.B. Sweeney has been in some memorable sports movies such as "Eight Men Out" -- in which he played Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and "The Cutting Edge," his most memorable role as hockey player-turned-figure skater Doug Dorsey. Sweeney’s latest project is called “Two Dum Micks…
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