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Discussions on the people, places, and events that have helped to shape the Show-Me State.
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Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
In this episode, host Sean Rost talks with Marshall Garvey about his new book, “Interstate ’85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series.”
Episode Image: U. S. Senators John C. Danforth and Thomas Eagleton at a World Series celebration event, 1985 [John C. Danforth Papers (C4532), SHSMO]
About the Guest: Marshall Garvey is a writer and historical consultant. He is the author of “The Hidden History of Sacramento Baseball,” “Ellwood’s Odyssey,” and “Interstate ’85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series.”
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
In this episode, Peter Gorton joins host Sean Rost to talk about the legendary baseball career of Glasgow, Missouri's John Donaldson, as well as the efforts of the John Donaldson Network to research and document African American baseball players and teams in the United States.
Episode Image: Premiers baseball team, Webster Groves, Missouri, date unknown [Henrietta Ambrose Papers (S0698), SHSMO]
About the Guest: Pete Gorton is a Negro Leagues Historian and a founder of The Donaldson Network, a group of amateur historians dedicated to the rediscovery of the lost baseball career of John Wesley Donaldson. For more than twenty-four years he has conducted a daily pursuit of a man who newspapers and fellow baseball players of his day referred to as the “Greatest Colored Pitcher in the World.” Gorton is a recipient of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) – Negro Leagues Committee - Tweed Webb Lifetime Achievement Award for preserving the history of the Negro Leagues.
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
In this episode, Bridget Haney and Zack Palitzsch, co-curators of "Covering the Bases: The Evolution of Baseball in Missouri," discuss the exhibit's creation, their favorite sections, and oral history clips in the SHSMO collections from baseball legends.
Episode Image: Jenkins Sons baseball team, date unknown [Irene Whitley Marcus Collection (K0452), SHSMO]
About the Guests:
Bridget Haney is a historian for the State Historical Society of Missouri. She earned a PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. For her dissertation, she focused on Black girlhood in Kansas City in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Bridget completed her master’s degree in history at the University of Central Missouri with an emphasis on 20th-century African American history. She also received a bachelor’s degree in history and English literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Zack Palitzsch is an archivist at the State Historical Society of Missouri's St. Louis Research Center. He grew up in St. Charles County, and received a bachelor’s degree majoring in English literature at Missouri State University as well as a master’s degree in library and information science from Indiana University.
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Monday Nov 11, 2024
In this episode, Jim Leeke joins host Sean Rost to talk about his extensive research into World War I, Major League Baseball, and the men who participated in both.
Episode Image: Baseball Game in Lafayette County, Missouri, ca. 1910s. [Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs (C3888), SHSMO]
About the Guest: Jim Leeke is a former news journalist, copywriter, and creative director. He is the author of several books, including “Howell’s Storm: New York City’s Official Rainmaker and the 1950 Drought,” “Sudden Ice,” “Long Shadows: The Farewell to JFK,” “A Hundred Days to Richmond,” “Matty Boy: A Civil War Novel for Young Readers,” “Manila and Santiago: The New Steel Navy in the Spanish-American War,” “The Turtle and the Dreamboat: The Cold War Flights That Forever Changed the Course of Global Aviation,” “Ballplayers in the Great War: Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service,” Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918,” “From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball during the Great War,” “The Best Team Over There: The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War,” and “The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I.”
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
This episode is a throwback to the Meet Me in St. Louis series from 2020 and features Ed Wheatley, President of the St. Louis Browns Historical Society, discussing his book, "Baseball in St. Louis: From Little Leagues to Major Leagues."
Episode Image: Play at home plate, St. Louis Browns vs. Detroit Tigers, 1942 [Joseph Wood Photograph Collection (S0819), SHSMO]
About the Guest: Ed Wheatley is the president of the St. Louis Browns Historical Society. He is also the author of several books, including "St. Louis Browns: The Story of a Beloved Team," "Incredible Cardinals," and "Baseball in St. Louis: From Little Leagues to Major Leagues."
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
In this episode of the Covering the Bases series, host Sean Rost talks with Jerry Grillo about his new book, Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize.
Episode Image: Cardinals player sliding into home plate, 1941 [Arthur Witman Collection (S0717), SHSMO]
About the Guest: For almost thirty years, Jerry Grillo worked as a staff editor, writer, photographer and designer for newspapers and magazines in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, South Carolina, and Georgia. Presently, he is a science writer at Georgia Tech, as well as a freelancer. He is the author of The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton as well as Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize.
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Monday Sep 30, 2024
As the seasons change from summer to fall, baseball, America’s pastime, transitions from the regular season to the postseason and World Series. To open Season 7 and coincide with the exhibit “Covering the Bases: The Evolution of Baseball in Missouri,” which is on display at the Wenneker Family Corridor Gallery at the Center for Missouri Studies in Columbia from now until January 2025, Our Missouri launches a seven-part series on Missouri’s baseball history.
To lead off the series, host Sean Rost talks with J. Daniel about his new book, Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of ’82.
Episode Image: Editorial cartoon by Tom Engelhardt entitled “Redbird of Happiness,” 1982 [Editorial Cartoon Collection (SHS 2013), SHSMO]
About the Guest: Jonathan “J.” Daniel currently works in communications for Indiana University, and spent twenty years working in sports, both in front and behind the camera. He spent five seasons producing Rays Magazine, a weekly television show about the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, and also worked as a sports producer at Fox affiliates in Tampa and Chicago. He is the author of Phinally!: The Phillies, the Royals, and the 1980 Baseball Season That Almost Wasn’t and Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of ’82. He blogs at https://80sbaseball.com/.
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
If you are an avid listener of Our Missouri, you know that each summer we set aside four episodes for a special summer series. This summer we are headed outdoors to sit around a campfire…albeit virtually…and tell stories with special ghost hosts, Kathleen Seale and Haley Frizzle-Green, for our summer series on…Missouri Mysteries. To conclude the Summer Series, Haley, Katie, and Sean share stories about mysteries they came across while working at the State Historical Society of Missouri.
Episode Image: Children sitting around a campfire, 1940 [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (S0717), SHSMO]
About the Guests:
Katie Seale holds a master's degree in history from Oklahoma State University. A native of the Missouri Ozarks, she worked at the State Historical Society's Springfield Research Center before becoming the coordinator for the Society’s Rolla and Springfield research centers.
Haley Frizzle-Green holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Presently, she is an archivist for the State Historical Society of Missouri at the Springfield Research Center.
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
If you are an avid listener of Our Missouri, you know that each summer we set aside four episodes for a special summer series. This summer we are headed outdoors to sit around a campfire…albeit virtually…and tell stories with special ghost hosts, Kathleen Seale and Haley Frizzle-Green, for our summer series on…Missouri Mysteries. In Part 3, Sean shares one of his favorite unexplained stories...the Piedmont Lights of 1973.
Episode Image: Clearwater Lake, Piedmont, Missouri, 1953 [Missouri Ruralist Photographs (P0030), SHSMO]
About the Guests:
Katie Seale holds a master's degree in history from Oklahoma State University. A native of the Missouri Ozarks, she worked at the State Historical Society's Springfield Research Center before becoming the coordinator for the Society’s Rolla and Springfield research centers.
Haley Frizzle-Green holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Presently, she is an archivist for the State Historical Society of Missouri at the Springfield Research Center.
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
If you are an avid listener of Our Missouri, you know that each summer we set aside four episodes for a special summer series. This summer we are headed outdoors to sit around a campfire…albeit virtually…and tell stories with special ghost hosts, Kathleen Seale and Haley Frizzle-Green, for our summer series on…Missouri Mysteries. Katie continues the Summer Series with the story of a mysterious blue pyramid in Phelps County, Missouri, and the man who built it.
Episode Image: Image from a newspaper article on the Blue Pyramid, 1977 [St. James Leader-Journal, 18 May 1977]
About the Guests:
Katie Seale holds a master's degree in history from Oklahoma State University. A native of the Missouri Ozarks, she worked at the State Historical Society's Springfield Research Center before becoming the coordinator for the Society’s Rolla and Springfield research centers.
Haley Frizzle-Green holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Presently, she is an archivist for the State Historical Society of Missouri at the Springfield Research Center.