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Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guests are Roy Firestone, a seven-time Emmy Award-winning and seven-time cable ACE Award-winning host, interviewer, narrator, writer, and producer. As the ground-breaking, original host of ESPN’s legendary "Up Close," "Up Close Classic" and "Up Close Primetime," Firestone has interviewed more than 5,000 athletes, musicians, actors and political figures, as well as scores of writers and filmmakers; and Jeff Polman, Strat-O-Matic fanatic and founder of "Play That Funky Baseball," a blog dedicated to the 1977 major league season.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's show will feature Boston Red Sox scout Galen Carr who will discuss life as a big league scout and his time with the Red Sox.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's show will feature friends and Seamheads, Gabriel Schechter, Joe Williams, Jeff Katz, and Paul Gotham, all of whom will be calling from the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Cooperstown to report on the festivities.

Join Steve Lenox and guest co-host Nick Waddell as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guests are Doug Gladstone and Kristi Dosh. Gladstone is the author of "A Bitter Cup of Coffee; How MLB & The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees A Curve." With a foreword written by the Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, Dave Marash, "A Bitter Cup of Coffee" tells the true story of a group of former big-league ballplayers denied pensions as a result of the failure of both the league and the union to retroactively amend the vesting requirement change that granted instant pension eligibility to ballplayers in 1980. Dosh is an attorney and the author of "Can Money Still Buy the Postseason in Major League Baseball?: a 10-year Retrospective on Revenue Sharing and the Luxury Tax," and is currently finishing a book with the working title of “Balancing Baseball: How Collective Bargaining Has Changed the Major Leagues,” which will be published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers in early 2011. The book breaks down those provisions of the collective bargaining agreement which have impacted competitive balance in baseball and explores their history, progression and future.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guests are Dave Dameshek and Lew Freedman. Dameshek has spent a good part of his professional life working with Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carrola, writing for "The Man Show," Comedy Central's "Crank Yankers," and "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Dave was a regular on "The Adam Carolla Show" before he began hosting his own shows in his hometown of Pittsburgh, then for ESPN Radio on 710 AM in Los Angeles. Dave currently hosts a podcast called "Daves of Thunder" with David Feeney. He's a diehard Pirates fan who led the 1990 Pirates to a championship over Lynch's 1922 St. Louis Browns in the Seamheads.com Near Miss Simulation Baseball League in 2009. Freedman is a Chicago-based sportswriter who has worked on the staffs of the Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News, and Philadelphia Inquirer. The winner of more than 250 journalism awards, he is the author of 40 books, including "The Day All the Stars Came Out: Major League Baseball's First All-Star Game, 1933."

Join Mike Lynch and guest co-host Jeff Polman as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball on Monday, July 5 from 9:00-10:00 EST. This week's guests on "What's On Second: The Seamheads.com Radio Hour" are Boston Globe and Boston.com sports writer Chad Finn, founder of the fantastic "Touching All The Bases" blog, and Seamheads.com writer and longtime baseball man Bob Wirz, who writes a weekly column about Independent and Atlantic League baseball and has been working in or around professional baseball since 1967.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guests are ESPN.com senior writer and six-time author Rob Neyer and writer and author Howard Megdal who will discuss his campaign to become the next Mets GM.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guest is George Case III, son of former major leaguer and three-time all-star George Case Jr., and former executive director of the Society For American Baseball Research. Case Jr. is most notable for winning six stolen base titles in his 11 years in the majors, but he also contributed footage to HBO's "When It Was a Game" thanks to hours of recording events with his 8 MM camera during his career. Case III transferred that film onto DVD and produced a 37-minute color documentary called “Around The League 1939-1946," complete with narration by his father before he passed away in 1989.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guest is writer and author Jonathan Mayo, a senior writer at MLB.com, who covers minor league baseball and, most notably, the amateur draft. Mayo worked on the broadcast team assembled for ESPN’s coverage of the first televised baseball draft in 2007, interviewing draftees after their selections. He is responsible for compiling MLB.com’s definitive list of baseball’s Top 50 prospects and has covered the Arizona Fall League, baseball’s winter meetings and many other events. He's also the author of "Facing Clemens: Hitters On Hitting Against Baseball's Most Intimidating Pitcher."

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guest is writer and author Jonah Keri, who currently serves as a writer/editor with Bloomberg Sports. His latest book, "The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took the Tampa Bay Rays from Worst to First," is due out in Spring 2011. In addition to Bloomberg Sports, Keri has written for ESPN.com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, SI.com, Salon, Slate, Playboy, Penthouse, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, and many other publications, and has contributed to many books.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guest will be Johnson City Cardinals pitching coach Doug White, who not only teaches professional pitchers but created a pair of instructional DVDs called "Passion For Pitching" designed for hurlers at all levels. Join us at 9:00 PM Eastern (6:00 PM Pacific) and hear about Doug's career as a pitching coach and DVDs. If you'd like to participate, call us at (347) 945-7172 or log in to the chat room.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guest will be author Matt Dahlgren, who wrote "Rumor In Town," a book about his grandfather, Babe Dahlgren. Babe is most notable for replacing Lou Gehrig at first base when Gehrig's consecutive games played streak ended in 1939, but there was much more to the man than that. Join us and hear about Babe's struggle to clear his name in the wake of a troubling and untrue rumor that adversely impacted his career.

Join Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch as they discuss the goings on in Major and Minor League Baseball. This week's guest will be former Major League hurler Dick Drago, who was drafted by the Kansas City Royals from the Detroit Tigers in the 1968 expansion draft and later served as closer for the Boston Red Sox in 1975 and 1979, and the California Angels in 1976, a year in which he served up the final home run in Hank Aaron's illustrious career.

In Seamheads.com's inaugural podcast, Steve Lenox and Mike Lynch will pay tribute to recently deceased Hall of Famers, broadcaster Ernie Harwell and hurler Robin Roberts. They'll be joined by author and columnist Tom Keegan, who wrote "Ernie Harwell: My 60 years in Baseball," and currently serves as Sports Editor of the Lawrence Journal-World in Kansas.