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Baseball may be the American pasttime but multi-million dollar contracts and players on steroids have left many nostalgic for the baseball of a simpler time. For some, turning back the clock 20 years would be enough. But around the country, there's a small contingent of fans who want to go further. They want to go back to baseball's roughest, most unvarnished days. They want to play baseball the way it was played in the 1800's.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein traveled to Nashua to see vintage baseball in action.

High prices at the gas pumps have many people grumbling about whether they will ever see cheap fuel again. We’ll look at what’s driving gas prices, how events in the Middle East are affecting the market, and if we can expect relief anytime soon. Jon Greenberg hosts. His guests are John Halstead, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Resource Economics and Development at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and Massood Samii, Professor of International Business and Strategies, Chair of the International Business Department at Southern New Hampshire University and former Chief Economist for OPEC in Vienna, Austria. We'll also hear from Russ Roberts, Spokesperson for ExxonMobil and Cary Funk, Senior Project Director at the Pew Research Center, which recently did a study entitled Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids?