Episode 104: Beyond the Box Score - Bridget Haney/Zack Palitzsch (Covering the Bases, Part 5)

Season 5 (2022-2023)

Episode Description

In this episode, Bridget Haney and Zack Palitzsch, co-curators of "Covering the Bases: The Evolution of Baseball in Missouri," discuss the exhibit's creation, their favorite sections, and oral history clips in the SHSMO collections from baseball legends.

Episode Image: Jenkins Sons baseball team, date unknown [Irene Whitley Marcus Collection (K0452), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Dizzy Dean broadcasting a baseball game on KWK Radio [Joseph Wood Photograph Collection (S0819), SHSMO]

About the Guest

Bridget Haney is a historian for the State Historical Society of Missouri. She earned a PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. For her dissertation, she focused on Black girlhood in Kansas City in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Bridget completed her master’s degree in history at the University of Central Missouri with an emphasis on 20th-century African American history. She also received a bachelor’s degree in history and English literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Zack Palitzsch is an archivist at the State Historical Society of Missouri's St. Louis Research Center. He grew up in St. Charles County, and received a bachelor’s degree majoring in English literature at Missouri State University as well as a master’s degree in library and information science from Indiana University.