The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey | Father's Day BBQ Gift Guide | Wee Willie Sherdel's Cardinals Legacy

Robert C. Cottrell is a writer with eclectic interests.  Robert has written numerous books on topics ranging from American radicalism, the 1960s, and the counterculture to baseball, WWII-era conscientious objectors, and popular culture.  His most recent work, The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey: New York City Baseball's Golden Age Amid Integration, involves a dissection of the ascent and descent of the New York baseball dynasty, with a close look at the New York Giants, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the New York Yankees. That also involves an emphasis on those teams’ star center fielders, Willie Mays, Duke Snider, and Mickey Mantle, as well as the shift of the Giants and the Dodgers to the West Coast. Woven throughout the book is an analysis of America race relations within and beyond the national pastime. 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 Father's Day Gift Guide.   Links for the gift guide follow: Kansas City Steak Company, https://www.kansascitysteaks.com/  Plowboys Sauces and Rubs,  https://www.plowboysbbq.com/  Big Horn Outdoors 1500F Portable Infrared Steak Grill with Pizza Stone, https://bighornoutdoor.com/  Big Green Egg Wireless Predictive Thermometer with WiFi Booster, https://biggreenegg.com/  VGASS, https://vgass.com/  JD’s Backyard BBQ Sauces,  https://www.jdsbackyardsauces.com/  MagneChef Freedom Gloves, https://magnechef.com/  Garage Gang Hot Sauce, https://magnechef.com  True Board, https://thetrueboard.com/  Myron Mixon Smokers, https://myronmixonsmokers.com/ John Coulson is the author of Wee Willie Sherdel:  The Cardinals' Winningest Left-Hander.  John Sherdel is Wee Willie's grandson and an important contributor to the book.  They previously joined us on episode 136 to discuss the book and Wee Willie's many great feats on the diamond 100 years ago as he played with more than 90 future Hall of Famers and some of the greatest players of all-time including Ruth, Gehrig, Ty Cobb, and Rogers Hornsby.  Both men were determined to have Wee Willie enshrined in the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, and they just recently received the great news that Wee Willie Sherdel was being inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, along with Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina.  This interview was done in person at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum where John Coulson and the two of us gave presentations.      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.