30 With Murti
30 With Murti
A weekly half hour conversation focusing on individuals with the New York Yankees and others from around the baseball world.Social links:
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30 With Murti Rewind: Don Mattingly's HR Streak
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 wh…
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Randy Wilkins on "The Captain"
The Captain, a seven-part film on the life and career of Derek Jeter, premieres Monday on ESPN. On the latest 30 With Murti podcast, Sweeny chats with the film's director Randy Wilkins about making the film and telling Jeter's story.
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30 With Murti: Howard Bryant on Rickey Henderson
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 Leg…
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30 With Murti: Paul O'Neill
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 lat…
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30 With Murti: Kostya Kennedy
Last week, MLB celebrated the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers - and on the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Sweeny chats with Kostya Kennedy, the author of the new biography "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson," about Robinson's career and legacy.
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30 With Murti: Abdi Abdirahman
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 late…
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30 With Murti: Lee Mazzilli, almost Olympian?
Before he embarked on a 14-year Major League Baseball career, Lee Mazzilli was a teenage speed skating champion with Olympic dreams - but the baseball path made him an All-Star in 1979 and a World Champion in 1986.
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30 With Murti: Chris Dickerson on his grassroots efforts
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…
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30 With Murti: Rico Brogna on the MLB Lockout
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…
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30 With Murti: Andrew Bergman
A baseball movie starring John Belushi? That would have been insane...and it almost happened. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast we get that story plus tales of Blazing Saddles, Fletch, and other classic films from legendary screenwriter and filmmaker Andrew Bergman.
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