Hosts: Brent Cardy and David Glassford
Episode length: 47 minutes and 35 seconds
The Cardy Show Podcast is back on a weekly basis. We're excited and honored to have Kevin Glew return to the program. Kevin is the Owner and Operator of the great Canadian Baseball website and resource Cooperstowners in Canada. Kevin as the majority of our listeners know is a long time volunteer at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St.Marys Ontario. Kevin most recently won the 2023 Randy Echlin Lifetime Acheivement Award for his service . Kevin also won the 2022 Bob Elliott Media Award for his outstanding contributions to Canadian Baseball.
This week Kevin, Dave and Brent discussed:
- What Bob Elliott has meant to Kevin's life and career
- A high level meeting with Bob in 2015 and why he declined the job.
- What legendary Toronto Blue Jays President Paul Beeston's compliment has meant to him
- What has receiving the Randy Echlin and Bob Elliott Media Awards has meant to Kevin.
- Discussing the positives in Kevin's Twitter feed
Our Baseball In Canada Series deep dive on Jack Graney
- Graney's childhood
- Graney's old house location
- Graney tour of St.Thomas.
- Graney's wildness leading him to playing Left Field
- Graney's attempt at being a 2 way player
- The effect that the death of Ray Chapman had on Jack's career
- Jack's post playing career adventures
- His trek into becoming the voice of the Cleveland MLB team
- Cleveland's St.Thomas Ontario connection.
- The Port Stanley ferry
- The origins of the Jack Graney Award
- What Jack Graney means to Kevin
We also discussed:
- Tip O'Neill Award candidates and the selection process.
- Cooperstowners in Canada's origins, expectations and experiences
- What is on Kevin's radar over the next little while
Big thank you to Adam Ullrey for his SABR article on Jack Graney
Please subscribe to the Canadian Baseball Network and Cooperstowners in Canada
If you some spare change hanging around feel free to send it our way. $3 gets you a shout out on The Cardy Show podcast .Click the link on our Buzzsprout Page if you choose to donate
Lastly : Please feel free to rate and subscribe good bag or ugly as it get's the Podcast some traction.
Thank you for listening.
You can follow The Cardy Show on Linked in . Twitter @CardyBrent or Instagram @TheCardyShowPodcast
Hosts: Brent Cardy and David Glassford
Episode length: 47 minutes and 35 seconds
The Cardy Show Podcast is back on a weekly basis. We're excited and honored to have Kevin Glew return to the program. Kevin is the Owner and Operator of the great Canadian Baseball website and resource Cooperstowners in Canada. Kevin as the majority of our listeners know is a long time volunteer at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St.Marys Ontario. Kevin most recently won the 2023 Randy Echlin Lifetime Acheivement Award for his service . Kevin also won the 2022 Bob Elliott Media Award for his outstanding contributions to Canadian Baseball.
This week Kevin, Dave and Brent discussed:
- What Bob Elliott has meant to Kevin's life and career
- A high level meeting with Bob in 2015 and why he declined the job.
- What legendary Toronto Blue Jays President Paul Beeston's compliment has meant to him
- What has receiving the Randy Echlin and Bob Elliott Media Awards has meant to Kevin.
- Discussing the positives in Kevin's Twitter feed
Our Baseball In Canada Series deep dive on Jack Graney
- Graney's childhood
- Graney's old house location
- Graney tour of St.Thomas.
- Graney's wildness leading him to playing Left Field
- Graney's attempt at being a 2 way player
- The effect that the death of Ray Chapman had on Jack's career
- Jack's post playing career adventures
- His trek into becoming the voice of the Cleveland MLB team
- Cleveland's St.Thomas Ontario connection.
- The Port Stanley ferry
- The origins of the Jack Graney Award
- What Jack Graney means to Kevin
We also discussed:
- Tip O'Neill Award candidates and the selection process.
- Cooperstowners in Canada's origins, expectations and experiences
- What is on Kevin's radar over the next little while
Big thank you to Adam Ullrey for his SABR article on Jack Graney
Please subscribe to the Canadian Baseball Network and Cooperstowners in Canada
If you some spare change hanging around feel free to send it our way. $3 gets you a shout out on The Cardy Show podcast .Click the link on our Buzzsprout Page if you choose to donate
Lastly : Please feel free to rate and subscribe good bag or ugly as it get's the Podcast some traction.
Thank you for listening.
You can follow The Cardy Show on Linked in . Twitter @CardyBrent or Instagram @TheCardyShowPodcast