Episode 100: Suds Series - J. Daniel (Covering the Bases, Part 1)

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/.