Story Archives of 'Baseball'

For three years, a local real estate developer has been trying to save the Nashua Pride baseball team from extinction.

The team had a history of sluggish tickets sales when John Stabile bought it, but the team has still yet to strike a profit.

Now the owner has given the team about six weeks to get out of the red….or the team’s future may be up in the air.

NHPR Correspondent Sheryl Rich Kern has the story.

The Red Sox wrap-up a three game series against their rival Yankees today. We'll check-in with sports writer Cecelia Tan, who's taking in the action at Yankee Stadium. We'll also hear some of the greatest baseball stories never told. Richard Letarte's new book looks at the careers of baseball players in the 1950s who only had one good season to brag about. His book is called That One Glorious Season: Baseball Players with One Spectacular Year.

It's the rivalry of rivalries - worse than the Hatfields and the McCoys, worse than postmen and dogs, worse even than the Montagues and the Capulets. It's the hundred year war of contention between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. We'll explore the deep-seated rivalry between these two cities, where it comes from and how it has evolved from the Curse of the Bambino to the 2004 American League Championship series.

Guests

• Glenn Stout, Series Editor of the Best American Sports Writing series, Author of of several books, including "Red Sox Century" and "Yankees Century" and Editor of "Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection" and "Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection"
• Bill Littlefield, host of NPR's Only a Game
• Chris Ryan, host and reporter at WKXL

We'll also hear from

• Rudy Giuliani, presidential hopeful and former mayor of New York City
• John Lynch, Governor of New Hampshire

The Portsmouth Little League team faces Columbus, Georgia Thursday night in the second round of playoffs at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. We'll talk about the explosive growth nationally and internationally of the sport with Charles Euchner, author of "Little League, Big Dreams." And, we'll check in with Art Johnson of Center Harbor. He's in Williamsport right now and is the first New Hampshire umpire ever to officiate at the games.

Former Newsweek writer Seth Mnookin was given the kind of inside access many print reporters would die for. He was handed keys to Fenway Park and given exclusive interviews with players and management of the Boston Red Sox, as they headed into 2004, their championship year. We'll get the inside scoop based on his new book "Feeding the Monster" and we'll also talk about recent Minor League shenanigans and bobble-head mania from Ken Cail, the public address announcer for the Nashua Pride.