From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll talk with Paul Moreno from Hillsdale's History Department about

baseball. See Bradley Thompson takes us through his new book, America's Revolutionary Mind.

Lee Cole from Hillsdale's philosophy department on Thomas Aquinas and the Reverend

Dawn Stegleman, a 1983 graduate of Hillsdale College, will talk with us.

First, we're joined by Dr. Paul Marino, William and Burdice Grucock Chair in Constitutional

History, Professor of History, Dean of Social Science.

Now we should be celebrating baseball this week.

We should be having games.

Now we should be in the midst of baseball season this week.

We should be celebrating opening days at ballparks across the country.

But circumstances have intervened, and we are not.

But that doesn't mean we can't take a look through baseball history with Paul Marino.

Dr. Marino, thanks for joining us. Thanks for Raymond on the show, Scott. As I mentioned, baseball, the topic today, I'm a big White Sox fan. I'm sorry to hear that. Especially the past decade or so it's been very rough. But you're Yankees? Yes, third generation New York Yankee fan. Yanky fan brought that with us from New York.

Sorry about that. Kids are the fourth generation. White Sox and Yankees' big rivalry back in the 60s. That's right. And I was really rooting for the White Sox in, what was it, 2005? Yes. When they, they had the Cuban pictures. Yes. And sort of on the anniversary of the Castro Revolution. so I was really glad to see that.

I sure didn't hurt that we knocked off the Red Sox.

Actually, I was always glad to see that.

I'm sure it didn't hurt that we knocked off the Red Sox. That's the always good deal along the way, yes. We talk about Major League Baseball, how it became big and big business here in the U.S. And perhaps what its future might be as well. Let's go way back, way back. the origins of the professional leagues, the National League first, the American League second.

How do that come up? might be as well. Let's go way back, way back. The origins of the professional leagues,

the National League first, the American League second. How do that come about here in the U.S.? That's an amazing story where people had this idea that you could take this amusement,

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