A mascot brawl, a mountain man who collected varmints as well as old baseballs, a guy named Captain Dynamite: Those are just a few of the wild things Ryan McGee saw, and sometimes did, during his summer as an intern with the Asheville Tourists minor-league baseball team.
Ryan has captured those stories in a new book due out April 4 called “Welcome to the Circus of Baseball.”
McGee is best known these days as the co-host of the SEC Network show “Marty & McGee,” where he and Marty Smith might talk about anything from Saturday’s big college football games to the world’s dumbest crooks.
McGee also spent years covering NASCAR and is a regular at the college baseball World Series in Omaha.
He was one of the first regular ESPN on-air personalities to have a strong Southern accent, and he talks about those early days of standing out from the crowd.
But mostly we talk about the joys of minor league baseball … and the occasional horror of having to fill the Dairy Queen machine.
Music in this episode
- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," Nancy Bea (former Dodger Stadium organist)
- "The Cheap Seats," Alabama
