Chef Ray Sheehan Presents His Annual Holiday Gift Giving Guide and Author, Robert Elias Discusses, Dangerous Danny Gardella: Baseball's Neglected Trailblazer for Today's Millionaire Athletes

Episode 319 features Chef Ray Sheehan as he presents his Annual Holiday Gift Giving Guide and author, Robert Elias discusses, Dangerous Danny Gardella: Baseball's Neglected Trailblazer for Today's Millionaire Athletes Ray Sheehan also known as Chef Ray is an award winning maker of barbecue sauces and rubs as well as an award winning cookbook author.  We continue with our yearly tradition as he presents his annual holiday gift giving guide.  Links for the gift guide follow:  Bear Mountain BBQ  www.bearmountainbbq.com; The Briner www.thebriner.com;  Big Green Egg www.biggreenegg.com; Drip EZ www.bbqdripez.com; Gunter Wilhelm www.gunterwilhelm.com; Grill Fighter www.grillfighter.tools; Pit Boss www.pitboss-grills.com; 901 Pig BBQ www.etsy.com/shop/901pig; B.T. Leigh's Sauces & Rubs www.btleighs.com; TD's Brew & BBQ www.tdsbrewandbbq.com; WECS Woodworking www.wecswoodworking.com; Chef Ray Sheehan www.raysheehan.com Robert Elias is Professor of Politics and Chair of Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he has received the Sarlo Prize, the Distinguished Research Award, and Frank Beach Service Award, and been a Davies Professor and the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair. He teaches courses on U.S. political history, human rights, constitutional law, American foreign policy, and baseball. He is the author of twelve books and his latest tome is Dangerous Danny Gardella: Baseball's Neglected Trailblazer for Today's Millionaire Athletes.  The book details the life and career of an unlikely baseball pioneer as he challenged baseball's reserve clause.  Robert explores Gardella's humble beginnings, his struggles to establish himself as a professional baseball player, his entertaining antics on and off the field, and his jump from Organized Baseball to the Mexican League that was the spark not only for challenging the reserve clause, but for creating America's most powerful labor union, the MLB Player's Association. We recommend you go to Rogue Cookers website, https://roguecookers.com/ for award-winning rubs, Chef Ray Sheehan’s website, https://www.raysheehan.com/ for award-winning saucess, rubs, and cookbooks, Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/ We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. We truly appreciate our listeners and hope that all of you are staying safe. If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you. Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  [email protected] Twitter:  @baseballandbbq Instagram:  baseballandbarbecue YouTube:  baseball and bbq Website:  https//baseballandbbq.weebly.com Facebook:  baseball and bbq        Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.