Back When There Was Baseball: Brant Alyea

Back When There Was Baseball · Apr 11, 2024 · 43m

We are airing this podcast this week in honor of Brant Alyea, who passed away on February 4, 2024.

Brant Alyea joins us this week on the podcast. He had an illustrious career at Hofstra University on the hardwood playing for Butch van Breda Kolff and also on the baseball diamond. Brant signed a free agent contract with the Cincinnati Reds in 1962, then the Washington Senators chose him in the first-year minor league draft in November of the same year. Brant talks about the influence Coach Ted Williams had on him as well as his two years in Minnesota before playing for the Oakland A's in 1972…