Tales from the Lost Armada
by Ricardo Cabral
Over his public relations and journalistic career, Ricardo Cabral has interviewed hundreds of featured people, primarily in the field of baseball. Cabral also is an author with nonfiction titles published on baseball history and fictional works in fantasy.© The Lost Armada Podcast 2023. All rights reserved.
Episodes
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S4, P3 Doug Carson_From Diamond to Foundation
Doug Carson was the first baseball player from the Sacramento area to be selected in Major League Baseball's Amateur Draft. Once that journey had run its course, Carson founded a not-fot-profit foundation to honor his wife's death due to breast cancer.
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S4 P3 Don Lyle: Baseball Lifer (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of our interview with Don Lyle, a baseball lifer. Don reveals his thoughts on scouting Aaron Judge at Fresno State and the Indians' decision to pass on today's version of Babe Ruth. Don then discusses growing up in Sacramento and playing on the sandlots in the 1960s and '70s.
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S4 P2 Don Lyle: Baseball Lifer (Part 1)
Don Lyle is a baseball lifer. After a minor league career in the Cincinnati Reds organization, Lyle converted his experience into nearly three decades as a MLB scout. Now retired, the Sacramentan talks about his time scouting for San Diego and Cleveland and several other related subjects in Part…
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S4, P1: Sam Azevedo, Azorean-American
Sam Azevedo is a classic example of the American immigrant who made good. He and his family came to California in 1958. After completing his education, Sam specialized in law enforcement and dedicated his life to a Portuguese fraternal organization—SPHSS—of which he is still a leading member....
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S3, P6 Bowerman, UofO Track, NIKE Co-Founder
Bill Bowerman is legendary in track and field circles, coaching the University of Oregon track teams during the 1950s and '60s. His players set NCAA and world track records, including Steve Prefontaine. Along with former player Phil "Buck" Knight, Bowerman co-founded NIKE. This is part 1 in a...
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Tales S3, P5_Tim Warren_Holy Bowl I
Tim Warren played in Sacramento's first Holy Bowl for Jesuit High. As a defensive lineman in that game, Tim had a unique perspective on that special contest pitting Christian Brothers High vs. Jesuit.
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Tales S3, P4_Dan Carmazzi, coach & teacher
Dan Carmazzi retired as one of the most victorious high school football coaches in the Sacramento region with 258 wins. Throughout his athletics career, Carmazzi was a proven winner. He took Jesuit High to Sac-Joaquin Section D-1 football titles in 1995 and 2002 over his 41-year coaching career.…
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Tales S3, P3: Three Queens of the Festa
This podcast features three generations of women who have served as Queen of the IDES “Freeport picnic” known by the Portuguese as the Holy Ghost festival. Our panel includes Rosemary Wood (formerly Valine), Regina Jones (formerly Cabral) and Juliet Jones. Music HINO DO DIVINO ESPIRITO SANTO…
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Tales, S3-P2_Roger Valine, Former President/CEO of Vision Service Plan
Roger Valine is a native Sacramentan who graduated from Christian Brothers High (actually Bishop Armstrong) and California State University, Sacramento. He joined Vision Service Plan as a management trainee in 1973 and progressed through the ranks of the company's sales division. Eventually, he…
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Tales_S3-P1_Alan O'Connor, Baseball Historian
Alan O'Connor is known as a major baseball historian and collector in the Sacramento region. A member of the Sacramento chapter of Society of American Baseball Research, O'Connor is the author of the book Gold on the Diamond: Sacramento's Great Baseball Players 1886 to 1976. His motto: "I may not...
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Tales_S2,P10_YMM 1976_The Nixon Plate
YMM 1976... The Bi-Centennial celebration of America's birth. And the California State Fair commissioned a person to create a "cake display" featuring the faces of all 37 presidents up through Gerald Ford. This story is about how/why Richard Nixon, the 37th president was removed from the display....
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Tales_S2,P9_Wally Westlake---Baseball Moments with Casey, Jackie & Willie
These interviews were conducted with Wally Westlake of Sacramento from 2010 - 2011. Westlake played 11 seasons in the major leagues. In Part 1 he recalls breaking into the majors with PIttsburgh in 1947, the same year that Jackie Robinson broke the proverbial “color barrier” with the Brooklyn...
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Tales S2, P8_Wally Westlake & CB's Colored Cleats_1969
In Part 1, we feature Wally Westlake, a native Sacramentan who played 11 MLB seasons, primarily with Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In this 2012 phoner we present a smorgasbord of stories about Jr. American Legion, umpires and one of Wally's favorite men from this time period: his coach and friend…
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Tales_S2, P7_AGAINST ALL ODDS: Conversations about How the River Cats Became Sacramento's Hometown Team
In R. A. Cabral's 20212 e-book AGAINST ALL ODDS, he covered the period in Sacramento baseball history from 1960 through 2000. That began with the departure of the Solons for Honolulu and culminated when the River Cats became “the hometown team.” This podcast features conversations circa 2011 with...
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Tales_S2, P6_Frank J Rogers, Oral History, 1979
An Oran History conducted on July 15, 1979 with the host's maternal grandfather, Frank J Rogers, who was a Sacramento native. He grew up in and farmed in the district known as "The Pocket" in south Sacramento, California. Rogers was the product of parents Albert and Rosa, who both immigrated from...
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Tales_S2, P5_John "Doc" Blanchard: Leadership
John Blanchard, a native of Sacramento, earned 2nd team All-City honors as a senior at Christian Brothers High, the year in which CB claimed its first-ever Metro League football title. He was recently inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. Blanchard earned a scholarship in football at...
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Teaser_TALES_S2, P5A_John Blanchard: on today's collegiate athletic world
A preview of our upcoming podcast with John Blanchard.
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Tales_S2 Memories from 1974 (Berkeley Jobs) & 2005 (Food Distro Christmas Eve)
While your host continues to recuperate from his 'medical malady,' we offer this Young Man's Memory from 1974 of part-time jobs secured in and around Berkeley and Old Man's Memory from 2005: Sweet Bread Distro on Christmas Eve. We have recorded an interview with someone from the sports and...
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Tales_S2, P4 Tom Phillips, Anecdotes of Rock Legends
Here's more from Ricardo's interview with Tom Phillips, including anecdotes of his experience with bands like the Yardbirds, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Boz Scaggs and the Beach Boys.
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Tales_S2, P3 Tom Phillips, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Sacramento string instrumentalist Tom Phillips has been entertaining audiences since freshman year of high school, playing folk, surf, rock, country-rock, classical and jazz for more than 60 years. Zounds! Here's his tale. "Bye Bye Blues" Single by Les Paul and Mary Ford, November 1952 Label,...
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Tales S2, P2: Dan Pastorini, Part 2
In Part 2 of our interview Dan Pastorini, we focus on his four years quarterbacking the Santa Clara Broncos football team, with discussions about his play on the diamond as well. We deal heavily with the two post-season games he participated in, lead-up to and selection in the 1971 NFL Draft…
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Tales S2, P1 Dan Pastorini, Part 1
We begin Season Two by featuring Dante Pastorini… best known as an NFL quarterback for 12 seasons years. This two-part podcast focuses on Dan's developmental years -- from his youth in Sonora, California to Santa Clara University. And his selection in the 1971 NFL Draft.
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Tales_P14_High Strangeness
Here are three moments in the host's young life that remain inexplicable to this day. Moments of "High Strangeness."
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Tales_P13_Gary Nolan, MLB Pitcher_Reds
This podcast--recorded in 2011 for the LaSalle Club Baseball Hall of Fame--is with former MLB pitcher Gary Nolan who spent 10 seasons with the Cincinnati Reds.
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Tales_P12_Brothers Recrimination--An audio-short story
A short story written and narrated by Ricardo Cabral based on an actual encounter in May, 1977 at Christian Brothers High School.
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Tales_P11_CB's 1968 Football Win Over Sac High
On a brisk November day in 1968 at Hughes Stadium, Christian Brothers High defeated Sacramento High 26-24 in football, marking just the fifth time Brothers had ever beaten its long-time rival. Coach Dick Sperbeck remembered it was one of the most important football victories in CB's history. That...
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Tales_P10_Cippa's SCU Drop-Kick
In 1971, at Santa Clara's Buck Shaw Stadium, Steve Cippa made collegiate football history with his successful drop-kick for an extra point. As Steve says, "It was a novelty."
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Tales_P9_Ed Cain_Brothers' Boy - Raconteur
Ed Cain was a prominent Sacramento businessman, politician and at the time of this 1991 interview, the oldest living graduate of Christian Brothers High.
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Tales_P8_Brushes with Fame Pt. 2
More encounters with famous people / celebrities over my journalistic career. Featured here are: Jessica Lange and Jane Curtain in Eugene, OR Jerry Garcia at the Grateful Dead's office in San Rafael Bill Graham dishing popcorn at the Warfield Theatre Raiders' coach, Tom Flores Guru Maharaj Ji in...
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Tales_P7_Rock Scully--Grateful Dead
Rock Scully managed the Grateful Dead from their inception in 1965 through 1985. In 1996, he published a memoir "Living with the Dead." I discovered among the photographs in the book one of my own--that I had not given permission to publish. Our conversation is included here.
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Tales_P6_Brushes with Fame Pt. 1
This podcast includes Ricardo Cabral's memories of interviews or chance moments with famous business people, celebrities and in one case a long, lost ancestor. Included are anecdotes about such folks as: Groucho Marx, Willie Mays, Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral and NFL quarterback Dan…
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Tales_P5_Don Lyle
In 2020, Don Lyle retired as one of the longest-tenured baseball scouts in America. He spent 28 years in scouting and of his 50-plus signees, eleven of them made it to the major leagues. Don began his baseball career in Sacramento at Oak Park Little League, played for Sacramento High and finished...
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Tales_P4_Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead
This convo is with Dennis McNally circa 1993. As publicist for the Grateful Dead we spoke about the band's penchant for playing benefits, which eventually led to their formation of the Rex Foundation.
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Tales_P3_Innerview with Host
Host Ricardo Cabral shares his background, some career highlights and plans for the podcast, TALES FROM THE LOST ARMADA.
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Tales_P2_Tony Freitas
Diminutive Tony Freitas was one of the greatest left-handed pitchers in minor league history, playing the bulk of his career with the Sacramento Senators and Solons. He also pitched five seasons in the big leagues for Philadelphia Athletics and Cincinnati Reds. This interview was conducted in…
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Lost Armada P1_Bob Forsch
Interview in 2010 with former Major League pitcher, Bob Forsch of Sacramento.
About this show
Over his public relations and journalistic career, Ricardo Cabral has interviewed hundreds of featured people, primarily in the field of baseball. Cabral also is an author with nonfiction titles published on baseball history and fictional works in fantasy.© The Lost Armada Podcast 2023. All rights reserved.
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Ricardo Cabral