David Pietrusza on Radio & TV

David Pietrusza has appeared on:

• ABC's Good Morning America
• C-SPAN (BookTV)'s After Words--interviewed by ABC's Ann Compton
• The Fox News Channel's The Big Story with John Gibson
• The History Channel's series
The Big Build, providing commentary on its Chicago Speakeasy episode
• Bloomberg Radio's Simply Put
• ESPN's Emmy-winning Sports Century series National Public Radio's Only a Game (discussing banned baseball player Jimmy O'Connell and gambler Arnold Rothstein)
• ESPN Classic's live July 2004 coverage of 1886-style baseball, America's Pastime: Vintage Baseball Live, providng color commentary alongside Ron Thulin and Bill "Spaceman" Lee.
• MLB Productions & ESPN Original Entertainment's joint-production: Utilityman: The Quest for Cooperstown with Randy and Jason Sklar (ESPN2)
• NPR's Talk of the Nation (discussing Cal Ripken Jr. and Arnold Rothstein)
• The Tim McCarver Show
• This Week in Baseball
• ESPN's Outside the Lines (Gambling's Influence on Baseball's History)
• ESPN-2's Cold Pizza
• ESPN Classic's Classic Now
• ESPN-Radio's The V Show (with Bob Valvano)
• The Comcast Network's It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle
• Ave Maria Radio's The Al Kresta Show
• The Comcast Network's Sports Talk
• RNN's award-winning documentary Our Town to Cooperstown
• The Radio America Network's Talkin Baseball Show
• The American Radio Network
• The Empire State Network
• The Radio One Network's As It Is
• Larry Grossman's You Can Bet On it
• and the nationally syndicated radio show, The Law Show.

Pietrusza's Sports Century appearances have included the following episodes:

   • Sports 10 Most Influential of the Century
   • Sports Dynasties
   • The New York Yankees (Parts I and II)
   • Battle Lines: Bobby Thomson Home Run
• Battle Lines: 1986 Red Sox vs. Mets
   • Bob Feller
   • Carlton Fisk
   • Lou Gehrig
   • Sandy Koufax
• Mickey Mantle
   • Bill Mazeroski
• Casey Stengel
• Bill Veeck

As well as the Sports Center Flashback:

   • The 1919 Black Sox Scandal

and on Who's Number 1?

   • Best Owners
• Best MLB Teams
• Best World Series.

And on:

• Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame:

• Top Five Reasons You Can't Blame the 1919 White Sox for "Throwing" the World Series
(actually, you can--and should--blame them)

• Top Five Reasons You Can't Blame Ralph Branca

• Top Five Reasons You Can't Blame Walter O'Malley

Judge & Jury—
Winner of the 1998 CASEY Award

On the Comcast Channel's
It's Your Call With Lynn Doyle

Teddy Ballgame:
My Life in Pictures
By Ted Williams and David Pietrusza

Pietrusza produced the documentary Local
Heroes: Baseball on Capital Region Diamonds for PBS Station WMHT and worked on the pioneer internet component, LearningLink for PBS' Ken Burns' Baseball.

David Pietrusza on
ESPN's Sports Century Series

David Pietrusza has appeared on such major local TV outlets as WNYW's "Good Morning, New York" with Donna Hanover, Boston's WBZ and WEEI, Washington DC's NewsChannel 8, Albany's NewsChannel 9, WXXA and WNYT, Schenectady's WRGB, Springfield (MA)'s WWLP, the New England Cable News Network (NECBN), and the
Regional News Network (RNN).

He's also appeared on such local radio outlets as WNYC (NYC), XTRA (Los Angeles/San Diego), KGO (San Francisco), WJR (Detroit), The Fan-590 (Toronto), KENO (Las Vegas), WKOA (Denver), WCCO (Minneapolis), 740-The Team, (Orlando), WHO (Des Moines), WBER (Buffalo), the Northeast Public Radio Network, WGY (Schenectady, NY), WKNY (Kingston, NY), KAJX (Aspen) WVKZ (Schenectady, NY), WIBX (Utica), WGNA (Albany, NY), WABY (Albany, NY), WQBK (Albany, NY), WROW (Albany, NY), WKLI (Albany, NY), WENT (Gloversville, NY), WVTL (Amsterdam, NY), KLGA (Algona, IA) and WCSS (Amsterdam, NY).

Local Heroes featured interviews with such major league luminaries as Tommy Lasorda, Ralph Kiner, Buck Showalter, Daryl Boston, and Bill Monboquette; Negro Leaguer Edsall Walker; baseball historian John Thorn; and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist William Kennedy.

Public Appearances