“…characters out of a kind of baseball version of Upstairs-Downstairs the old PBS series about class and expectation. One is Ivy League. The other is Summer League. One grew up dreaming of baseball. The other played it, raised in a house with a father who made a living at it in the major leagues…”
Excerpt taken from Mike Barnicle’s “Tito and Theo”
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“…given the short national attention span, nobody cares what happened in the 20th century. Life and sports are about the moment.”
Extract taken from Mike Barnicle’s “Boston getting used to idea of beating New York following so much heartbreak.”
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“…a funny thing happened. In between the marketing blitz, an actual baseball game took place.”
Extract from Mike Barnicle’s “Good game, bad ballpark”
Mike Barnicle discusses A-Rod’s baseball career on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Mike Barnicle discusses the science behind pitching injuries on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Robert Redford narrates an excerpt from Mike Barnicle’s “The Glove“, in honor of the 4th of July holiday. The two minute piece honoring the relationship between ball players and their gloves, aired during a double header on July 4, 2014. Making this piece even more special, the piece was produced by Barnicle’s sons, Colin and Nick Barnicle, and colleague Jeff Siegel, of Prospect Productions.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-redford-narrates-fourth-july-716607
Mike Barnicle banters with the Morning Joe team about Boston Red Sox spring training during a segment of The Sideline.
Mike Barnicle discusses free agent status on Morning Joe
Mike Barnicle speaks about the magic of Fenway Park, and the iconic stadium’s hold on the people of Boston in “Inside Fenway Park: An Icon at 100 Part II”
Mike Barnicle talks about the baseball gloves he’s had since 1954.
“The Tenth Inning,” is a two-part, four-hour documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. A new chapter in Burns’s landmark 1994 series, BASEBALL, “The Tenth Inning” tells the tumultuous story of the national pastime from the 1990s to the present day.
