Producers’ Pick | Tom Rinaldi

Some of the greats of the game how special 100 Bost Occidental was Hall of Famer Rod Carew. We could be talking about 3000 I will start born about one because you told me once that would buy stock known by his family and friends is Wesley never had the chance to reach a prime course sees the greatness seemed to like just ahead that ended on a fateful corner, deadly sin, yes, that is wanted by stock somebody were familiar with baseball fans are probably not the middle name Wesley but that is the name of the first serialized documentary series from Tom Rinaldi tells the gripping heartbreaking story of how he was the first player to be killed in season while being along with being one of the best hitters in baseball terminology joint is now time.

Congratulations to the perfect person to launch the series was your idea was Brian, thanks for having me.

Always good to hear your voice appreciated and I cantered to the folks at Fox sports. About a year ago we were talking about audio content and narrative podcasts and podcasts to tell a story unfold across episodes and as you know, Brian, how big that content has become how much people have become engrossed by hearing her story told across multiple episodes and I came to Fox with the story which I had told in part 14 years ago when I worked at ESPN and they seemed excited about it and here we are pretty much a year later, getting ready to launch this part episodic podcast about Lyman Bost stock Junior just audio right just audio that's correct and will you know you get a 5%, can you get it where ever you get we get to my guess exactly you can get on on Apple spot. If I were ever you listen to your podcast the first four episodes are 80 total grind launch next Monday, the day before the All-Star game I and so these are these episodes, how did you decide what to cover would either be looking at so when you take a step back and you consider the length of history of major league baseball but more than 150 years and there's only ever been one player to be murdered during the season and it didn't happen. Brian 100 years ago.

It happened in the 1970s and 1978, and it happened to a player you just heard from George Brett and Rod Carew Hall of Famer's legends and again believe that this guy could have been a 3000 player could've been in strong consideration for Cooperstown and yet his wife and his career ended through an absolute tragedy and mistake on the very end of the season. His fourth season of 1978, we ask ourselves, to the degree Brian, why don't more people know this story of this remarkable player of the son of the Negro leagues player up player Reggie Jackson came at the charter complete Yankees are player prized by George Steinbrenner, a guy got in the terrible swamp after he signed a big contract.

You tell me Brian if anyone else comes a line in any sport or whatever you do best and Ruth tried to refuse his first month salary well… Hope you earned it, and when the team paid to him. He still gave it away to charity. That's just one of the things that make up the fascinating character that is Lyman Bost, now the I guess the East Coast of Wesley Fox was first serialized documentary time without giving it away. I mean, would you feel comfortable saying led to this without stopping people from some from tuning in. There are number of things that I think as people listen to that some of the voices that your ritual year. We heard from George Brett we hear from Rod Carew we hear from them members of Lyman's family, but it also toward the later episodes. Brian becomes a crime procedural because while it's not the absolute center of Lyman's story. It is a crucial part of the story is murder and what becomes of the man who murdered who never denies that he raised the gun and fired at point-blank range, and remarkably, in the words of Jack Crawford, the man who prosecuted him and breaks down Brian 40+ years later in tears about what happened says that Leonard Smith got away with murder. He got away with it. This tells you the story of how that happened and how that led to an almost immediate change in most demo laws criminally in the state of Indiana.

All the things that came from this huge sensational story which remarkably has largely been forgotten through time and of course I must… There just time for free agency civil experience that but you have guilt did some great hitters in this area George Brady a ride Carew both on record. Outside, Pete Rose, probably the two best of maybe the right crew the best ever above the greatest gray all-time great time hitters. How hard was it to get them to talk about this very easy. Brian and one of the things that connection.

George brought to the story is that Brett's brother was a teammate of alignment and in what we believe is a very gripping moment in one of the later episodes at Lyman's funeral which was back in Los Angeles. Lyman was murdered in Gary Indiana. A few days later the team went back to mourn him along with housing plus others in a church in Vermont Square that neighborhood in Los Angeles young manager first-year manager Jim for ghostly was supposed to be the person who spoke on behalf of the team but was so overcome by his own emotion that he turned without any prompting to George's brother Ken a picture on the team Brian and asked can without any preparation or advance warning to stand up at the pulpit and speak for him, and on behalf of the team you hear some of that audio from that eulogy and you hear George become promotional thinking about what his brother went through in eulogizing his teammate you your Rod Carew who was a career mentor to Lyman that you could see this this young players incredible appetite for the game's desire to learn from an older, more established pattern is clearly on his way to the hall of some of the other teammates we hear from Kenny Landro Carney Lance work Carney Lance work this team the Angels Brian played a game. Later the same day, Lyman died very early the morning of September 24, the Angels played an afternoon game that day. While that's inconceivable to think about happening today and in his first at bat is rooted teammate Carney Lansford batting in the lineman slot in the batting order. What you think he did in its first at bat homerun just some of the small parts that make up the greater Mosaic of this podcast the line and stored our identities opens up July 18 11 four episodes immediately available all across the major podcast platforms Apple and spot a five Fox sports.com as well as a Fox sports app so look forward to that, what else did. What other series you have you have chewed up or you think about so we just want to let people know Brian you get the first four episodes of the day of launch July 18. A week later episodes five and six and a week after that episode seven and the finale episode eight of what were going to have a lot of feature with barren judge coming up for All-Star game coverage were super excited about the field of dreams I know how much you love that baseball fans love that incredible event last summer back for that again this summer and that of course it's your fault to remember as we roll into college football. The NFL and the World Cup so it'll be a busy time. We love it. Absolute expertise is golf.

This controversy now with this live tour as well as I PGA and that the British Open they told they told Greg Norman stay home.

You know you want to twice as are upset that you started this live tour that's financed by the Sally wealth fund first Octobers as a purist as you are as much as you note, golf, and the golfers personally great writers you've done, Woody would have you feel about how you feel about these two tours. I think it's been really interesting to see the emergence Brian write up some of the golfers who have clearly become legal voices like Rory McElroy, who has become a staunch defender of the PGA tour softened his stance for just one moment in one interview with the BBC and now has her to double down again Tiger addressed the media just today I said, paraphrasing, and he especially felt like players are turning their back on the tour that made them so interesting to see how these two towards ultimately shake out the PGA Tour so deeply established. Of course, but they do live tour has gotten shoe players, major winners top 15 players in the world to come over walk to see how it ultimately manifests in world ranking points will be a big part of that and with a left yet will he get points for playing in winter those tournaments and will the majors allow the live players to play because I will. That's when the rubber could hit the road. Congratulations on your new series host you the host of Wesley, the first episode, Fox sports first serialized documentary and documentary series. It's a podcast and go to wherever you get podcast it begins a drop, so to speak. July 18 terminology. Thanks so much Fox News contrasts network subscribe and listen to the tradeshow refund just for federal prosecutor and four term US Congressman from South Carolina brings you a one-of-a-kind podcast subscriber list now by going up boxes on tests.com