The Sports Almanac with Brian Barnard: Recent Episodes
Brian Barnard
The Sports Almanac looks at the day in sports history and ties stories to events, people, and records. Each episode brings new stories centered the Sports Almanac. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-barnard/support
In this episode we look at the first college baseball game ever played. The history of the schools that participated in the game, the set up of the game, how the game was played and what happened after the conclusion of the game.
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Our May 31st episode starts off with Baseball and then moves into some random thoughts. We finished with the happies.
Baseball - 300 pitches in a game, the triple play, Gaylord Perry, and the spitball. Pat Riley's connection to baseball. Also some Tommy Lasorda information.
Random thoughts from Usain Bolts 19 Guinness World Records and the oldest person ever to complete a marathon.
Happy Birthday to Happy Hairston, Joe Namath, and Jim Craig
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In this episode, we look at Auto Racing, Hockey, Basketball, and Baseball.
Auto Racing - Indianapolis 500
Hockey - Colorado hockey connections
Basketball - Dr. J, Finals Records, and the Spurs
Baseball - The ejected BallBoy, "The Murph", The only pitchers to give up home runs to Barry Bonds and Henry Aaron
Birthdays - Sam Snead, Pat Cash, Frank Thomas, and Jeff Bagwell
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In this episode we look at the greatest 45 minutes in sports history from Jesse Owens. We talk about baseball stories from Casey Stengel to Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire. We end with basketball stories from Lebron James and Paul Pierce. Birthday’s include Aly Raisman and Brian Urlacher.
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In this episode we talk about baseball’s two home run innings. Then we move to basketball and talk about steals, MVPs and chants. The 1st and last Everest snowboarder. We finish with a couple of birthday’s.
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In this episode we look into the longest boxing match. In baseball we talk about consecutive at bat homerun streaks, shortest games, and pinch hitters for Hank Aaron. We end with golf.
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