30 With Murti

Rickey Henderson, one of the most impactful baseball players ever, spent parts of five amazing but controversial seasons with the Yankees in the 1980's. We look back at Rickey's "Yankees Years" with Howard Bryant, best-selling and award-winning author of the new biography, "Rickey: The Life and Legend of An American Original," from Mariner Books.

The Captain, a seven-part film on the life and career of Derek Jeter, premieres Monday on ESPN. On the latest 30 With Murti podcast, Sweeny chats with the film's director Randy Wilkins about making the film and telling Jeter's story.

Before he embarked on a 14-year Major League Baseball career, Lee Mazzilli was a teenage speed skating champion with Olympic dreams - but the baseball path made him an All-Star in 1979 and a World Champion in 1986.

Next month marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most famous speeches in American history—Lou Gehrig’s “luckies man on the face of the earth” speech, delivered at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939.
In this episode of “30 With Murt” Sweeny discusses the speech and its impact with two people who have had a great part of their lives impacted by Gehrig in different ways.
Jonathan Eig is the author of “Luckiest Man: The Life And Death of Lou Gehrig,” the definitive biography of The Iron Horse.
Matt Dahlgren is the grandson of Babe Dahlgren, the man who replaced Gehrig in the Yankees lineup on May 2, 1939, the day Gehrig’s streak of 2,130 consecutive games came to an end.
Eig and Dahlgren share their stories and perspectives as Sweeny talks to them about the most famous moment in history of Yankee Stadium.

Pat Williams knew the luck of the lottery back in 1992 when his Orlando Magic found the pingpong ball that landed them Shaquille O’Neal. Williams, the 79-year-old co-founder and senior vice president of the Magic these days announced his retirement last month.

But that’s just an excuse for Pat to be out on the circuit telling more stories about his entertaining life in sports, which began with a love of baseball and a brief career as a minor league catcher in the early 1960s.

In this episode of "30 With Murti," Williams tells us about his baseball roots as a young boy in Philadelphia and how it eventually led him to becoming one of the top executives in the history of the NBA. But all the while, baseball is still in Pat’s heart, and you’ll hear about all his wonderful connections to the game, including one to a Hall of Fame pitcher and another to the current manager of the Yankees.