In this week's Moonlight Baseball Hour Tim and Neil discuss Clayton Kershaw's 7-Inning Perfect Game, Seiya Suzuki's introduction to Chicago, and Vlad Guerrero Jr.'s 3 home run game in Yankee Stadium.
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Neil and Tim are bursting with anticipation. Between Opening Day and Neil’s baby on the way, there is a lot to be excited about in the Moonlight Graham world. It hardly seems possible that the opening day of the 2022 baseball season is here with all of the time the sports world spent talking about the lockout. Between the social media hot takes and the threats of a reduced season, it almost felt like this day would never come.
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We love repeat-Moonlighters and this week we bring back an all-time great. Pat Hoberg isn’t just a top-tier Moonlighter though, he is also the number one umpire in Major League Baseball. The Urbandale native was the star of episode 103 when he was an up and comer in the Majors. He returns to the pod as arguably the best umpire in the world!
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Now that the players and the league have settled the lockout we are ready for baseball after a (make it) rain delay. This week we have a guy whose career was put on a delay of its own, Carter Baumler.
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The Moonlight Graham Show is back with a new season, which is more than we can say for Major League Baseball. Emery Songer joins the pod this week to talk about the season that coulda/woulda/shoulda been. These amateurs have done some research and tried to get a better every man’s level of understanding about why we aren’t getting excited for opening day right now.
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This week’s Moonlighter is one of the best ballplayers to come out of Iowa. Larry Biittner had a heck of a career and spent quite a bit of time in a true Moonlighter role; pinch hitter. Though he is an all-timer as a pinch hitter, Bittner is the first to say that he didn’t like doing it, but it was what the team needed. Tim sits down with Larry to talk about a career spent in the big leagues with names like Nolan Ryan and Ted Williams.
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This week Tim sits down with a trio of Dowling Maroon baseball’s recent legends. These guys are ready to talk about all things baseball, from the new announcements about Minor League Baseball to the current postseason.
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How many episodes does it take to land (arguably) the most talented Flattery brother on the podcast? 221 was the magic number to bring in the big lefty, Joe Flattery. Brother Joe stands out from his brothers for a few reasons. He is the tallest, calmest, quietest, and the only lefty of the group. This week, all of the Flattery boys sit down in the family home to share stories about Joe and his career in sports.
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This week’s Moonlighter is a Cyclone legend. Larry Corrigan did just about everything for the Cyclones. His career in Cardinal and Gold spanned the early 1970s as a player and then as a coach in the 1980s. Corrigan was an All-American pitcher and catcher, set the Cyclone record for batting average, and then set the record for wins in a season as a coach. Now the Cyclone Hall of Famer sits down to talk about life in baseball and seeing the game from just about every angle.
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We are still riding high from the Field of Dreams game. This week, Tim sits down with NBC Chicago’s Alyssa Bergamini who covers the Chicago White Sox to get an insider’s look at how the players felt about the field, Iowa, and the amazing finish to the game itself. Also in this episode is an update on the Quest for Costner and the upcoming Field of Dreams streaming TV series.
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This week the dream comes true. As the White Sox and Yankees pack up and head for home, Tim and Neil get to reflect on one of the most amazing sporting events to ever take place in Iowa. The Field of Dreams movie site went through a roughly 2-year transformation to become the home of a major league-caliber baseball field. Tim and Neil spent the day with 8,000 of their new best friends taking in the sights, sounds, and tastes of something Ray Kinsella could’ve only dreamed of.
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It is Field of Dreams week here in Iowa. Major League Baseball is following in the footsteps of the ghost players and will be walking out onto a diamond carved out of a corn field in eastern Iowa. Before the Yankees and White Sox take the field, the Moonlight Graham Show sits down with Moonlighter Tommy Birch and talks about the long road to bring the big league to Dyersville and the Barstool Barn Burner game. This is a huge week in baseball as all eyes turn to Iowa and 30 years after the movie came out, we are ready.
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From Little League to the bigs, baseball is in full swing. And few guys can swing it like our Moonlighters this week. Winterset’s James Peterson and Marshalltown’s Jeff Clement were national newsmakers in the summer of 2002 as they chased the national high school home run record. Peterson and Clement could absolutely rake in high school. Neither ever hit lower than about .450 and they were hitting double-digit home runs.
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This week’s Moonlighter filled a critical role for 11 different major league teams over the course of a 21-year professional career. With that many years under his belt, LaTroy Hawkins had to evolve as a player and adapt to his role on the team a few different times. This interview covers the range of his career and his perspective on what the major league game is like now over 30 years after he was drafted.
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Moonlight Graham is ready to do what no one (and certainly no podcast) has been able to do; fix the game of baseball.
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Most of our Moonlighter’s get to look back on their careers and share their thoughts in the past tense. Most stories get a little bit better with time and a few retellings. Every once in a while we pull in an active athlete in the midst of their career with a few achievements under their belt and and their sights set on what’s next. This week’s guest brings a little bit of everything.
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This week’s Moonlighter is a double header in his own right. Scott Schebler was on the podcast in Episode 49 and comes back in Episode 179 as part of our series with DMACC. Scott Schebler came out of DMACC’s Boone Campus in 2010 and has spent the last ten years in professional baseball.
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His pursuit of professional baseball took him outside of the state and through seven countries before hanging up his spikes and starting work as a paralegal. Tim and J.D. sat down recently in the Scholten for Congress RV that has traveled all across Iowa’s 4th congressional district as he campaigns for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.
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When thinking about baseball in Iowa, two things quickly come time mind: Bob Feller and Field of Dreams. As a podcast that has prided itself on exploring the untold stories of sports in Iowa, we wanted to do a deep dive into the best baseball players in Iowa since the Heater from Van Meter.
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Ethan Bryan was first on the podcast in 2018 when he was in the process of playing catch every day for an entire year. Now, it is our pleasure to bring the author Ethan Bryan onto the podcast to discuss his newly released book, “A Year of Playing Catch”.
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