178 - Dr. Travis Stern

We celebrate the 2025 Opening Day Weekend; and (6:28) Dr. Travis Stern, Author of “Ballplayers on Stage: Baseball, Melodrama, and Theatrical Celebrity in the Deadball Era” and Associate Professor of Theater Arts at Bradley University, talks Goth Music and the St. Louis Cardinals. Drink: Cava (Brut Reserva 2020) from Roger Goulart in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Spain. Dr. Stern’s book: https://utpress.org/title/ballplayers-on-stage/ Dr. Stern’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traviswstern/ Dr. Stern’s Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/travisstern.bsky.social Last Call Baseball T-Shirts: https://last-call-baseball-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/all Last Call Baseball Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lastcallbaseball/ Last Call Baseball Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/lastcallbaseball.bsky.social Last Call Baseball Twitter: https://x.com/LastCall4040 Intro and Outro Music: DeCarlo Podcast Logo Artist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/regan_vasconcellos/