From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

That's essentially the Green New Deal. It's nothing to do with climate energy, and instead it's using a climate scare to impose a progressive wish list upon America.

This is your host, Scott Bertram. And that's Mark Morano, author of the new book,

Green Fraud, Why the Green New Deal is even worse than you think. We'll talk with Mark a little

bit later on on today's program. Our first guest today is Dr. Paul Marino, chair in constitutional

history, professor of history, and dean of social sciences here at Hillsdale College, and

a huge baseball fan. We talk with him as the Major League Baseball season gets underway.

Dr. Marino, thanks for joining us. Thanks for giving me 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. Yankees 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.

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, always good to go 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 about here in the U.S.?

That's an amazing story where people have had this idea that you could take this amusement,

this game that mostly young men played just for their own amusement and sort of honor and

competition, sort of fraternity kind of thing, a club sport. And somebody got the idea that you

could actually get people to pay money to watch them play this at a very high level.

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