The Twenty-First Century Townball Podcast

Listen as Grant concludes the series by doing a read-aloud of essays from our website, 21ctownball.com! Chapters: 0:13-4:06, Mission & Vision 2:12-9:24, The Origins of the American Pastime 9:24-13:03, The Fibonacci Factor 13:05-19:51, The Massachusetts Game (TMG) 19:56-25:22, Twenty-First Century Townball 25:24-28:39, Swift Pitching in TMG 28:40-38:29, Baseball is Boring 38:

For the last interview not only of this chapter but of the whole series, we’re gonna hear from a brand new townball player from northern Washington state, Aaron Gibbs! Aaron has played a total of three townball games, so of all the guests we’ve had he is the most new to the game. Aaron is a good friend of Rylan Schubkegel who we had on in Chapter 2, if you’ll remember. Aaron

Daniel Jones is back but this time he is joined by his wife Adina! Adina has been along for the ride from the beginning and was the principal seamstress in making jerseys for the Newberg Quakers last year as well as other townball jerseys. Adina could not have done this without the help of Veritas alumna Olivia Veeman. Olivia was an avid townball player at Veritas and has since joi

Before there was townball at UHS, there was cricket. We get to hear about that at length for the first time in this series from repeat guest Jimmy Sanborn and newcomer to the podcast Josh "JT" Treisman. Jimmy and JT go way back as friends at UHS and were there to witness the transformation from the cricket season to the townball season at UHS, year in and year out in the

Roshan and Artashes are the captains of the California Golden Bears. As of January 1, 2024, Roshan will be the new West Coast Townball League Commissioner and Artashes just took a position in the motherboard which is a group of 8 that oversees the sport in general. They are both finishing up their studies at Berkeley College this year and they’re on a mission to keep townball gro

You stuck around to the end! Chapter 4 is more or less the chapter we’re using for episodes that aren’t as concerned with a particular period in time. Since these conversations didn’t fit as well into the other chapters, they ended up in the miscellaneous chapter if you will. However, that’s not to say that these conversations are super random. In fact, they cover more of w

In this chapter called Townball in the Midwest we are closing with some very important and wonderful people that have put their stamp on townball in Hillsdale, MI most notably at Hillsdale College. My other brother Jacob will help bridge the gap between townball out west to how townball has expanded out here in Michigan, you’ll hear from our friend Gabe Kottkamp (the current town

Guess what? There are more Mores! We get to hear from Grant's brother Nathan talk about how he introduced Grant to townball back in Newberg in 2019 and how Nathan has been along for the ride ever since, witnessing townball's expansion into the Midwest. You'll hear Nathan start by recounting his time as a student at Veritas, meeting Daniel Jones, and then describing the

Get to know four players from the only (so far) townball team east of California, the Hillsdale People: Ezra and Silas Hutchinson, and Felipe and Artur Siimes. This is the first time we get to hear from the younger player’s perspective, and they were very glad to do this episode in person. They passed a single mic around the table so everyone got equal opportunities to speak, so

Dr. Paul Moreno is the Dean of Social Sciences at Hillsdale College and faculty advisor for the college's townball club. We get to listen to him take a deep dive into what made baseball appealing in its early stages all the way until its golden era in the mid 20th century, and what lessons can be learned from history when it comes to how to shape the culture and growth of Twent