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Monday, July 07, 2003

Daniel Marvin, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Special Forces and former Green Beret in Vietnam, gives an inside account of the elite fighting force and explains how covert operations have developed over the past thirty years. Then, Roger Kahn gives an in-depth account of the Yankee’s legendary season of '78 when they went head to head with the Boston Red Sox, October Men. Louis Masur looks back 100 years to America’s very first world series in 1903, between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates. And Roger Angell and Elizabeth Warren talk about the new exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum dedicated to baseball history, The Perfect Game: America Looks At Baseball.

Daniel Marvin

Daniel Marvin, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Special Forces and former Green Beret in Vietnam, gives an inside account of the elite fighting force and explains how covert operations have developed over the past thirty years, Expendable Elite: One Soldier's Journey into Covert Warfare.

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Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn gives an in-depth account of the Yankee’s legendary season of '78 when they went head to head with the Boston Red Sox, October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978.

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Louis Masur

Louis Masur looks back 100 years to America’s very first world series in 1903, between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates, Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series.

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Roger Angell and Elizabeth Warren

Roger Angell and Elizabeth Warren talk about the new exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum dedicated to baseball history, The Perfect Game: America Looks At Baseball.

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