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EPISODE · May 2, 2026 · 1H 59M

Ken Davidoff, Co-author of 101 Lessons From The Dugout and Kelly Kammann from Kelly Belly BBQ

from Baseball and BBQ · host Len & Jeff

Ken Davidoff has been covering Major League Baseball for 30 years. He served as a baseball columnist at the New York Post from 2012 through 2022.  Prior to joining The Post, Ken wrote about baseball for Newsday and The Record. He has appeared on ESPN, the MLB Network, YES Network, CNN, and others. A former president of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Ken now works as an adjunct professor at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass., teaching various journalism and writing courses.  His latest project is the book, 101 Lessons From The Dugout:  What Baseball And Softball Can Teach Us About The Game Of Life, which he co-wrote with Harley A. Rotbart, MD.  It uses all things baseball to teach life lessons, 101 of them.  Each lesson contains an individual feature of the game followed by a pearl of wisdom or two to inspire readers.  For more information or to purchase the book go to https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/101-lessons-from-the-dugout-9798765163016/    Kelly Kammann is an up and coming pitmaster who enjoys teaching others others how to barbecue and shares his love of barbecue with anyone lucky enough to find him and his YouTube channel.  Barbecue mishaps are something most of us have experienced and learned from and Kelly shares his.  He also gives us some recipes which sound delicious.  Our conversation is filled with barbecue talk, but Kelly also has some fantastic baseball stories. 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/ To team up against prostate cancer go to https://fansforthecure.org/ for Fans for the Cure, and to subscribe to Bill Chuck's newsletter, Billy-Ball go to  https://billchuck.substack.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.

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