Portrait of an Orioles Fan in Heaven… Matt Fisher, sitting in the studio with his baseball hero, Orioles World Series MVP Rick Dempsey.
At noon:
- The baseball world hasn’t had much to cheer about lately (especially Baltimore), but Charm City has always got the unforgettable Orioles’ World Series Championship of 1983. We sit down with lifelong baseball fan Matt Fisher and his hero, Orioles World Series MVP Rick Dempsey, to reflect on a glorious moment in sports history, 25 long years ago
- We talk with author Marion Winik about her work, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, a memorial of sorts to 51 people whose lives (and deaths) have touched her life
- And Signal producer Aaron Henkin tells a live audience at Center Stage about an embarrassing episode from his own past, when he thought he’d learned how to outsmart a roulette wheel
And at one o’clock:
- A visit with writer and humorist John Hodgman. He’s a ‘guest correspondent’ on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and he’s recently authored an ‘Almanac of Complete World Knowledge’ that contains NO TRUE FACTS. He’ll be discussing his book, The Areas of My Expertise, and introducing his musical traveling companion, Jonathan Coulton, who shares a similar affection for the absurd.
- We talk with FOUND magazine publisher Davy Rothbart about some of his latest “finds†and about his new collection of short stories, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
- And we hear the music and the stories of Maryland blues diva Ruby Hayes. She started out as a teenage church choir singer in Arkansas. Then she moved out to the East Coast, where she’s gone on to earn the title, ‘Princess of the Blues’
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