Each spring, Vermont Edition touches base on baseball, discussing players, stoking rivalries and debating the latest proposed changes to the great American pastime. This spring, there's only one problem: there's no baseball.
We'll talk about enduring a baseball-less spring, a proposed start to the season in July amid empty stands and how coronavirus has also affected collegiate teams and softball leagues in Vermont.
Our guests are:
- Amy Noyes, VPR reporter
- Mitch Wertlieb, host of VPR's Morning Edition
- Kurt Wright, co-host of WVMT's The Morning Drive
- Charlie Barbieri, head coach and field manager of the Vermont Mountaineers, a leading team in the New England Collegiate Baseball League whose 2020 season was canceled this month.
- Mark Bodin, program director for the Brattleboro Heat Fastpitch Softball Program, a youth softball program in Southeast Vermont
Share your baseball quesitons, complaints or thoughts in the comments below.
Broadcast live on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 1 p.m.; rebroadcast at 8 p.m.
