Irish Baseball Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

The 2025 Maryland Irish Festival is coming up on November 7th, 8th, and 9th.  On the podcast today, Irish Baseball Podcast host Rick Becker will talk with Michael McConnell.  Michael is the President of the Maryland Irish Festival, and will let us know everything we can expect if we attend this year's festivities.

Irish Baseball Podcast host Rick Becker is joined by Dr. Jimmy Moley to have a conversation about mental health in sports.  Moley is a sports psychiatrist, and sees the way early bad habits can come back to impact athletes in the professional and college ranks.

Marc Gunn has used the "Irish & Celtic Music Podcast" as a way to showcase great music from all over the world.  Rick Becker, host of the "Irish Baseball Podcast" talks with Gunn in today's episode to see what keeps him making new episodes.

Irish Baseball Podcast host Rick Becker sits down one more time with Steve Steinberg to talk about the author's book about Mike Donlin, and some of his other projects.  Mike Donlin is such an interesting character that this conversation has lasted three episodes of the show.

Rick Becker, host of the Irish Baseball Podcast, welcomes back Damian Shields, author of the book “Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War).”  

John Fitzgerald, founder of the Irish American Baseball Society, sits down with former-MLB executive Dan Evans for a conversation spanning topics like Shohei Ohtani, scouting, and Irish heritage.

Rick talks with Damian Shiels, author of the book “Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)."  Hear first-hand accounts from the letters of the soldiers themselves.

Host Rick Becker will talk with Colleen Monahan who is the chairwoman of the Baltimore Saint Patrick's Day Parade on this week's episode.  Monahan is in charge of the event which will take to the streets of Charm City on Sunday, March 16th of 2025.

Gabriel Fidler is an expert in European baseball.  If Ireland is ever to make the World Baseball Classic, Fidler knows the pitfalls the team would face along the way.  Host Rick Becker discusses that with him, and other topics, as well.

Steve Steinberg, along with his co-author, Lyle Spatz, Steinberg wrote the book “Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life From New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen.”  Host Rick Becker talks with Steinberg today about Donlin's transition from baseball to the stage.