22 episodes
Sandlot Social Club Sandlot Social Club
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5.0 • 12 Ratings
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Baseball cards for your ears. Season one of Sandlot Social Club traverses the landscape of sandlot baseball through the voices and stories of its players.
Hosted by Adam Lefton, of the Cap City Cobras, an Austin, TX based team, the show explores local baseball's resurgence and the impact that's having on people and communities.
If you're new to the show, we recommend listening from oldest to newest.
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Forever in Blue Jeans
This special offseason episode of Sandlot Social Club features Jonathan Williams and Steven Lefebvre, of the Nashville Blue Jean Baseball Club, sharing the origins of the team and their respective approaches to running a sandlot ballclub.
Show notes:
Dense with sage advice for ballplayers of all ages and persuasions.
A full(er) season of Sandlot Social Club is in the works for 2024, featuring new voices from sandlot cities across the United States. Follow here to get notified when it's released or look me up on instagram @sandlotsocialclubpodcast for updates from the road.
Until then, see you out on the diamond.
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#20: Consider the Lefty
In the season finale, Adam sits down with teammate Callie Collins during the Cobras' last home game of 2022 to reflect on the podcast and talk about his relationship to baseball.
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The Green Fields of the Mind -
#19: Baseball for Human Beings
Adam travels to New Orleans to talk with Nick Schmidt, the commissioner of the People's Baseball League, about what it means to say baseball is for human beings.
Show Notes:
People's Baseball League
Ian Mackaye on water
NY Times parenting newsletter (subscription-only, unfortunately): Why Have We Allowed Money to Ruin Youth Sports? -
#18: Hardball
Adam and Cap City Cobras teammate Thomas Slanker post up at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to recap the 2nd Annual Sandlot Bash at Field of Dreams and reflect on their first experiences playing sandlot ball with the Cobras.
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#17: The Good Game
Adam chats with Jack Sanders, founder of the Texas Playboys and creator of The Long Time, a baseball field and event space on the outskirts of Austin, about some of his influences in the areas of design and architecture, what he loves about the game of baseball, and his approach to captaining the Playboys and taking the field himself.
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Newbern Baseball Club
Rural Studio
Texas Playboys
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#16: Sandlot Recommends "Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio"
Adam chats with the mysterious creative duo behind Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio, a podcast of full-length fake baseball games from a dreamy league where the players, teams, and surrounding businesses have been completely invented, and the sonic mood has been crafted to produce a calming vibe conducive to relaxation.
Customer Reviews
Baseball is a way of life. Sandlot baseball doubly so.
If you love baseball this podcast will be like a warm blanket and a crackling fire.
Adam has all the attributes of a great interviewer. Curious, thoughtful, deferential, easy going. I especially loved episode #12 with Dr Bowers.