Season 5 (2022-2023)

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]

In this episode, Peter Gorton joins host Sean Rost to talk about the legendary baseball career of Glasgow, Missouri's John Donaldson, as well as the efforts of the John Donaldson Network to research and document African American baseball players and teams in the United States.

Episode Image: Premiers baseball team, Webster Groves, Missouri, date unknown [Henrietta Ambrose Papers (S0698), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Kansas City Monarchs, date unknown [Irene Whitley Marcus Collection (K0452), SHSMO]

In this episode, Jim Leeke joins host Sean Rost to talk about his extensive research into World War I, Major League Baseball, and the men who participated in both.

Episode Image: Baseball Game in Lafayette County, Missouri, ca. 1910s. [Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs (C3888), SHSMO]

Banner Image: St. Louis Browns vs. Detroit Tigers, ca. 1910s. [Arnot M. Finley Photograph Albums (C3422), SHSMO]

This episode is a throwback to the Meet Me in St. Louis series from 2020 and features Ed Wheatley, President of the St. Louis Browns Historical Society, discussing his book, "Baseball in St. Louis: From Little Leagues to Major Leagues."

Episode Image: Play at home plate, St. Louis Browns vs. Detroit Tigers, 1942 [Joseph Wood Photograph Collection (S0819), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Children playing baseball in St. Louis, Missouri, 1941. [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (S0717), SHSMO]

In this episode of the Covering the Bases series, host Sean Rost talks with Jerry Grillo about his new book, Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize.

Episode Image: Cardinals player sliding into home plate, 1941 [Arthur Witman Collection (S0717), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Scoreboard and bleachers at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, Missouri, date unknown [Joseph Wood Photograph Collection (S0819), SHSMO]

As the seasons change from summer to fall, baseball, America’s pastime, transitions from the regular season to the postseason and World Series. To open Season 7 and coincide with the exhibit “Covering the Bases: The Evolution of Baseball in Missouri,” which is on display at the Wenneker Family Corridor Gallery at the Center for Missouri Studies in Columbia from now until January 2025, Our Missouri launches a seven-part series on Missouri’s baseball history.

If you are an avid listener of Our Missouri, you know that each summer we set aside four episodes for a special summer series. This summer we are headed outdoors to sit around a campfire…albeit virtually…and tell stories with special ghost hosts, Kathleen Seale and Haley Frizzle-Green, for our summer series on…Missouri Mysteries. To conclude the Summer Series, Haley, Katie, and Sean share stories about mysteries they came across while working at the State Historical Society of Missouri.

If you are an avid listener of Our Missouri, you know that each summer we set aside four episodes for a special summer series. This summer we are headed outdoors to sit around a campfire…albeit virtually…and tell stories with special ghost hosts, Kathleen Seale and Haley Frizzle-Green, for our summer series on…Missouri Mysteries. In Part 3, Sean shares one of his favorite unexplained stories...the Piedmont Lights of 1973.

Episode Image: Clearwater Lake, Piedmont, Missouri, 1953 [Missouri Ruralist Photographs (P0030), SHSMO]

If you are an avid listener of Our Missouri, you know that each summer we set aside four episodes for a special summer series. This summer we are headed outdoors to sit around a campfire…albeit virtually…and tell stories with special ghost hosts, Kathleen Seale and Haley Frizzle-Green, for our summer series on…Missouri Mysteries. Katie continues the Summer Series with the story of a mysterious blue pyramid in Phelps County, Missouri, and the man who built it.

To conclude the On the Bookshelf series, host Sean Rost talks with Sarah Lirley about her new book, "Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age."

Episode Image: James A. Love standing beside the grave of his first wife Ann George and child in Fulton, Missouri, 1888 [James A. Love Papers (C0131), SHSMO]