Dan Lovallo

There is no spitting in baseball.  At least in 2020.  As Major League Baseball prepares to launch a truncated 2020 season, it has issued a litany of guidelines in the era of Covid-19.  Among them?  No spitting.  I talk about some of the new rules in place and also remember Eddie Kasko, the manager of the Boston Red Sox for four seasons.  Eddie died three days shy of his 89th birthday on June 24. In talking about Kasko, I also remembered Dick Williams, who managed the Red Sox to the 1967 pennant.  I caught up with Williams, when he was managing the Montreal Expos in 1980 and I replay the short interview I had with him.  Forgive me, if the tape sounds a bit wobbly, as the interview was recorded on a cassette recorder and is some 40 years old. Williams, by the way, was one of the few people to manage pennant winners in both leagues. As promised in the podcast, here is the link to the round table interview I conducted on the extra inning rule. CLICK HERE