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Bushball is about the People, Places and Purity of Minor League Baseball.

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Bushball is about the People, Places and Purity of Minor League Baseball.

    Life in the Mexican League, Lloyd Allen shares his time with the Angeles de Puebla.

    Life in the Mexican League, Lloyd Allen shares his time with the Angeles de Puebla.

    Lloyd spent a season down in Mexico playing for Angeles de Puebla. He talks about the lifelong friendships, the great fans, and questionable playing conditions during his time in Mexico. 
    From "Double Pay", halting play to let trains pass, and good men passing too soon,  our conversation with Lloyd has something for everyone.

    • 33 min
    Jim Barr joins Bushball! Jim talks about his MLB Career, his time at USC, and his Long Held MLB Record.

    Jim Barr joins Bushball! Jim talks about his MLB Career, his time at USC, and his Long Held MLB Record.

    Jim Barr enjoyed a 12 MLB career with the San Francisco Giants and California Angels. He also won two national championships with the University of Southern California. He held a major record for 35 years and also had a 16 year college coaching career at Sacramento State. 

    • 56 min
    Top Prospect and University of Arizona Signee Anthony "Tonko" Susac

    Top Prospect and University of Arizona Signee Anthony "Tonko" Susac

    Anthony Susac is one of the premier right handed pitching prospect in the country and a University of Arizona commit. He shares his greatest memories in baseball, the upcoming MLB draft and growing up around the game. 

    • 48 min
    AAA Broadcaster Tim Hagerty of the El Paso Chihuahuas Joins Bushball.

    AAA Broadcaster Tim Hagerty of the El Paso Chihuahuas Joins Bushball.

    Tim Hagerty is the broadcaster for the El Paso Chihuahuas (Padres Triple-A affiliate).
    Before El Paso, Tim broadcasted for the Padres' Triple-A club in Tucson, Arizona and Portland, Oregon. His was also previously the voice of the Double-A Mobile BayBears (Padres affiliate) and Rookie-level Idaho Falls Chukars (Royals affiliate).
    While with the Royals' affiliate, Tim made his MLB play-by-play debut, joining Kansas City's radio team for a game against Tampa Bay. In 2007, he produced and hosted the Diamondbacks Minor League Report on the D-backs Radio Network.
    In the off-season, Tim is a freelance reporter for Fox Sports Radio and Sporting News Radio, providing national, on-air updates from college football and basketball games. The Massachusetts native was selected to broadcast two Triple-A All-Star Games and a Triple-A National Championship Game on Westwood One and has called two MLB exhibition games.
    He is the author of a baseball book and has written hundreds of baseball history articles for Sporting News, The Hardball Times and other publications.
    His work has been honored with both national and regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and by the Alabama Associated Press, Mobile Press Club, Idaho State Broadcasters Association, Idaho Press Club, Vermont Associated Press, the Society for American Baseball Research and the Society of Professional Journalists. Tim was voted El Paso Sportscaster of the Year in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Baseball America named him an MLB broadcast prospect in its Best of the Minors feature.

    • 57 min
    Dennis Snelling Joins Bushball to Share Casey Stengel's Time as Manager of The Oakland Oaks

    Dennis Snelling Joins Bushball to Share Casey Stengel's Time as Manager of The Oakland Oaks

    • 29 min
    Life of a Minor League Team Owner: Matt Aguilera Shares his Family's Journey as Owners of the Medford A's in the 70s & 80s.

    Life of a Minor League Team Owner: Matt Aguilera Shares his Family's Journey as Owners of the Medford A's in the 70s & 80s.

    Matt Aguilera shares his experience growing around baseball and his family's ownership Oakland A's affiliate the Medford A's.

    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
8 Ratings

8 Ratings

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Surprisingly Interesting

I would not expect a podcast on Minor League Baseball to be so interesting. Mr. Patzer does a great job bringing the minutia “bush leagues” to life in an oddly fascinating way.

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