Baseball and BBQ Episode #142: Features Russell Turner of All Star Bar-B-Q, Baseball Rebels and Major League Rebels Authors, Peter Dreir and Robert Elias, and Guest Co-host, Doug Scheiding

Baseball and BBQ Episode #142 Features Russell Turner of All-Star Bar-B-Q, Baseball Rebels and Major League Rebels Authors, Peter Dreir and Robert Elias, and Guest Co-host, Doug Scheiding
Russell Turner opened All-Star Bar-B-Q in Rusk, Texas in 1993 and has served "smoked to perfection" BBQ.  In Texas, outstanding barbecue may not be hard to find, but Russell has combined great barbecue with his love of baseball, more specifically, his love of the Houston Astros and serves up great food in a fun atmosphere.  Lovers of baseball history, especially that of the Houston Astros that began in 1962 as the Houston Colt .45s, will spend lots of time enjoying awesome barbecue while they enjoy the tons of baseball memorabilia throughout the place.  Doug Scheiding of Rogue Cookers joins us as guest co-host. Baseball and BBQ are definitely on this menu.
Peter Dreir and Robert Elias set out to write one book on some of the players and others associated with baseball who "stood up to racists, war-mongers, and their own greedy owners"  as well as including baseball people who "challenged both the baseball establishment and society's status quo."  Their research yielded an overwhelming number of fascinating items and thus, one book was not good, but two books were just right.  Baseball Rebels:  The Players, People, And Social Movements That Shook Up The Game And Changed America and Major League Rebels:  Baseball Battles Over Workers' Rights And American Empire are two books filled with incredible baseball history.  Dreier and Elias are distinguished professors by day, and we feel they earned their PhD's writing two outstanding books. 
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We conclude the show with the song, "Baseball Always Brings You Home" by the musician, Dave Dresser, and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.
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