Bases Covered Live

Welcome to The Highland Bullpen Baseball podcast and we've an exciting episode in store for you with the upcoming launch of MLB Bases Covered Live on BBC iPlayer and TNT Sports.

We catch up with hosts Melanie Newman, play by play broadcaster of the Orioles and Xavier Scruggs formerly of the St Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins.

We talk all things fan culture, the memorable experiences of World Cup fans taking over baseball games, our shared passion of baseball and sport across the pond and what unites and divides us. 

We chat about how to grow the great game over here and come up with the ultimate idea for the next London Series game, you know you've got to do it MLB!

We'd love any questions and thoughts you have.

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CREDITS

"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

"Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic

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