Michael Cooper Sports Talk

Coop and Curry on the future of the careers of Brett Favre and Barry Bonds plus Baseball's big mid season game and the turn in the Met's season

Michael Cooper and the authors of "Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs", Bill Chuck and Jim Kaplan relay their opinions on the biggest moments in Baseball history and a not so great moment involving Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Chuck Curry is back on Michael Cooper Sports Talk with the impact of CC Sabathia's trade from the woeful Cleveland Indians to the Milwaukee Brewers - the Chicago Cubs counter by adding Rich Harder in a deal with the Oakland A's the next day. Are the Yankees in trouble with all the latest A-Rod mess? Chuck says no way!

Michael Cooper and ESPN award winning writer Mark Kreidler (author of the book "Six Good Innings") on the true Boys of Summer - the 12 year old Baseball players who won a World Series against Japan, made two other appearances in a 5 year period and changed their New Jersey town forever.

Coop talks to sports writer Bill Gutman, author of over 20 sports books, including The History of the Home Run from Babe Ruth to Barry Bonds, Miracle Year 1969 Amazing Mets and Super Jets and his latest What if the Babe had Kept his Red Sox.

Michael Cooper plays a little heard excerpt from the legendary Harry Caray on why he hates Cracker Jack - plus a tribute to the oldest Olympic swimmer of all time Out of the achives, Coop digs up a diatribe by the legendary St. Louis and Chicago broadcaster, Harry Caray, on how he was betrayed by a box of Cracker Jack and that he wouldn't even talk about it if it wasn't in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Plus, Dara Torres is heading to her 5th Olympics at the age of 41 - she won her first medal 24 years ago.

Coop and Curry on The Chicago Cubs with the best record in Baseball, The Yankees making a comeback with Jaba Chamberlain and Don Imus inserts his foot into his mouth again with Pac Man comments - Coop talks with the New York Post's, Phil Mushnick, who says Mike and the Mad Dog are just playing contract games and are not leaving WFAN

Tampa Bay Sports Talk Radio host, Ted Fleming discuss the amazing season the Rays have had going from worst to [close to ] first in 2008 - plus a prediction on whether they can win the division.

A true blue N.Y. Mets expert, Jon Springer - author of Mets by the Numbers - fields questions about the team and shares his opinion of management and key players like Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Jose Reyes and Sandy Alomar

Author Gary Moore tells of his father Gene’s brush with baseball destiny, and how a farm boy from Illinois almost made it to the Major Leagues, and the obstacles that stood in his way. A film based on PLAYING WITH THE ENEMY is currently in production, with Gary’s son Toby set to play Gene Moore.

With an anthology of 20 heartfelt stories in the ANATOMY OF BASEBALL, Andrew Blauner helps fans rediscover what the game really means.

Richard Bradley author of The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78. Richard talks about the long time rivalry between these two teams and the culmination leading up to that historic one game play-off.

Paul Dickson, author of Baseball's Greatest Quotations & Historical Lore - a must for every Baseball fan!

Legendary Los Angeles Dodger and San Diego Padre, Steve Garvey, joins Coop to talk about his career and new book "My Bat Boy Days," where Steve recounts his boyhood growing up in Tampa, Florida, as a Spring Training Bat Boy for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the impact those players had on his own career.

Coop interviews Baseball immortal, Carl Erskine, who has had quite the Spring Training. The Brooklyn Dodger go-to pitcher played the National Anthem at the Dodgers last spring training game on his harmonica and threw out the first pitch at Dodgers stadium this year on the 50th Anniversary of the team moving to Los Angeles. Carl had the honor of pitching the first Dodger game at Vero Beach and the first Dodger game in Los Angeles.

Coop and Curry - Alex Rodiguez talks about his biggest game as a Yankee played at Virginia Tech this past week - The Houston Rockets 22 game win streak ends and Major League Baseball prepares for its opening day in Japan with the Boston Red Sox and The Oakland A's.

Coop on the week's most bizarre sports stories including Billy Crystal's at bat as a New York Yankee

Coop and Curry on Baseball's spring training including an ugly affair between the Tampa Bay Rays and The New York Yankees

Matt Johanson, journalist, teacher and author of "Game of My Life: San Francisco Giants and Where Have They Gone" - discusses San Fran fans feelings about Barry Bonds and baseball steroids investigations.

A caller and Coop discuss Barry Bonds, Roger Clemons, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa and Pete Rose - who should be in the Hall of Fame... all or none.

A caller has issues with how the past twenty years of steroid cheating will affect future athlete's abilities to ever break another record - Coop vents about issues of fairness and the moral high ground versus flawed human beings...

Coop and Curry with the Red Sox victory, the New England Patriots running up the score on their opponents and a tale of 2 Joes as Joe Torre ends up with the L.A. Dodgers and Joe Girardi takes over the Yankees post.

Coop and Curry on the first two games of the World Series, the next manager of the Yankees - and the debate over who's better, theNew England Patriots or Indianpolis Colts.

Coop & Curry with the latest on the Baseball Pennant race and the Dallas Cowboys - Buffalo Bills NFL nail biter.

Coop & Curry with the latest on the Baseball Pennant race, best pitcher ratings, predictions on the final matchup and Chuck's view of his beleagured Mets fan disappointment and Willie Randolph's standing.

Is the City of Boston trying to buy championships in the three major sports? The Texas Rangers set a modern day record scoring 30 runs in one game – Poll results –79% of you think Michael Vick will play in the NFL maybe as early as next year!

Coop and a caller from Manchester England discuss the impact David Beckham is having in America and another caller remembers Tampa Bay Running Back Mike Alstott whose career is stopped by injury.

Alex Rodriguez hits 500 – Glavine gets 300 - Was Hank Aaron paid to make a video tribute to Barry Bonds and Mike Vick says he loves dogs!!!

Coop interviews Johnny Wilson, one of the top athletes in America in the 40's and 50's who couldn't play in the major leagues or the NBA because of his race. Johnny talks about growing up with former Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine.

His career with the Harlem Globetrotters, the Chicago American Giants in the Negro Leagues and coaching glory.

A look back at the Brooklyn Dodgers through an HBO special, The Ghosts of Flatbush – Remembering the struggles Hank Aaron went through 23 years ago setting the Home Run Record – Barry Bonds not having any fun either…

Carl Erskine interview with Michael Cooper on the new HBO documentary. The great Dodger talks about life in Brooklyn – his 11 World Series appearances and his two no-hitters – How Brooklyn almost became the Buffalo Bills of baseball by losing so many World Series.