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Was Fred Lynn your favorite baseball player, too?

Baltimore Positive

Baseball legend Fred Lynn checks off a bucket list interview with Nestor, whose inner 1970s fanboy sets off a Fantasy Island of questions from Fenway Park to Memorial Stadium. If you remember that May 1985 weekend on 33rd Street right after he joined the Baltimore Orioles, this one is for you…

Trotz: Going home to finish the job in Nashville has been the ultimate challenge

Baltimore Positive

They met in the Baltimore Civic Center press box almost 40 years ago and the fire on ice of the former Baltimore Skipjacks head coach still burns. The future Hockey Hall of Fame inductee has returned to Nashville to become the Predators general manager and joins Nestor to talk about how to win another Stanley Cup on the management side and what keeps him motivated to maintain a grueling hockey life and NHL pace that is teaching him new lessons in the game.

The ice cold Orioles Hall of Fame credentials of Fancy Clancy

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore’s most beloved beer man since 1974, Clancy Haskett tells Nestor how it’ll be when Orioles finally win the World Series on Crab Cake Row Day 3 of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” from Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. And we begin the campaign to get “Fancy Clancy” into the Orioles Hall of Fame.

The complexity of The Earl Of Baltimore in “The Last Manager”

Baltimore Positive

Author and one-time Wall Street Journal reporter John Miller finally brings his Earl Weaver biography to life and joins Nestor to discuss better understanding his baseball legacy beyond the Baltimore Orioles. Join Miller and our friend John Eisenberg at Enoch Pratt Free Library on March 5th for an evening of Earl conversations.

My good walk of deep admiration and sportswriting on the brink with John Feinstein

Nestor Aparicio

John Feinstein and I had an awkwardly weird and beautiful friendship that had been strengthened by deep conversation and mutual respect over the last two decades since we somehow found ourselves in Brian Billick’s coaching office after games in stadia all over the country during the 2004 season. I know so many of you will miss his work. I will miss him.

McMillen emphasizes resilience of American democracy amidst current chaos

Baltimore Positive

It’s easy to go marching into the Madness of college basketball season with Tom McMillen but our defending forward of Congressional service and American hoops diplomacy joins Nestor to discuss a lot about Russia, the state of the world and a little about the path of the Maryland Terrapins this month.

That’s “Sir” Digital Williams now as a courtside legend enters Coppin Hall of Fame

Baltimore Positive

He’s been a visitor many times over three decades and now we can call him “Hall of Famer” Gary Williams. He’s the “other” Gary Williams of Beltway Boxing “aka” Digital, who was inducted into the Coppin State Hall of Fame after all of his years on the mic at the Coppin Center and the beautiful new Physical Education Complex. A little Eagles love here with one of our favorite local historians of the sweet science.

Making the Canton case for Marshal Yanda in bronze

Baltimore Positive

Over the past three weeks, we’ve welcomed several members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee onto the show to discuss the candidacies of Marshal Yanda, Terrell Suggs and Steve Smith Sr. Meet Tampa football sportswriter Ira Kaufman, who brings his usual sage insights on what Yanda might be the first to enter the bust room in Canton.

When the Lions didn’t roar in January

Baltimore Positive

In lieu of our traditional Super Bowl Radio Row, we’re reaching out to our NFL world to invite voters for the Pro Football Hall of Fame onto the show this week to discuss a trio of Ravens on the Canton ballot. Dave Birkett of The Detroit Free Press covers the Lions and tells Nestor what happens after you lose in January in a town that has never won The Big Game.

Will Baltimore get the Jacksonville vote?

Baltimore Positive

Our Woodlawn and Maryland defending champion Sam Kouvaris, who made a life as a Jacksonville sports television legend, returns home to report with Nestor the pains of Jaguars life and the pleasure of his 30th year on the Pro Football Hall of Fame committee examining Marshal Yanda, Terrell Suggs and Steve Smith Sr. for Canton glory.

Lamar Jackson Pittsburgh Steelers Baltimore Ravens

The Legend of Lamar and his need for a Super Bowl ring

Baltimore Positive

Football historian and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter Howard Balzer joins Nestor after another lost January for the Baltimore Ravens to discuss their historic offense and the long road of MVP quarterbacks who struggled to win a Super Bowl in the early years in the NFL. And with Marshal Yanda, Terrell Suggs and Steve Smith Sr. up for Canton busts, we ask the venerable committee member to tell us how it works.

Does King Henry have a season or two left in him?

Baltimore Positive

The praise for the offense of the Baltimore Ravens is universal but they’re still not playing football into late January. Pro Football Hall of Fame voter and Houston legend John McClain joins Nestor to discuss “next year” for Lamar and C.J. Stroud in chasing Super Bowl rings and why Derrick Henry is still the key to the short-term future and the local possibilities of another purple parade.

Making a case for NFL greatness with Buffalo Hall of Fame voter Vic Carucci

Baltimore Positive

In an era where an MVP debate between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen can be divisive, we defer to the legendary Hall of Fame voter and NFL historian Vic Carucci, who joins Nestor from Buffalo to discuss what makes a quarterback “valuable” and how he thinks of Ravens’ Canton candidates Terrell Suggs, Marshal Yanda and Steve Smith Sr. Oh, and there’s a little football game in Orchard Park this weekend with huge stakes in our hometowns.

The international money, gambling and most influential sports league in the world hasn’t snuck up on agent Leigh Steinberg

Baltimore Positive

Talking NFL revenue, player contracts, union leverage and the future of American sports leagues all over the world with our returning champion and super agent Leigh Steinberg, who joins Nestor to discuss the lineage of the billions of dollars and jobs of the NFL offseason as another Super Bowl tournament begins with his quarterback Patrick Mahomes watching football this weekend and waiting for another chance for a Lombardi Trophy.

An unlikely Baltimore and Pittsburgh friendship: How Mike Tomlin really feels about Nestor

Nestor Aparicio

Back in 2016 when Mike Tomlin joined John Harbaugh and Brian Billick on stage in downtown Baltimore for “A Night of Heroes” and Super Bowl championship stories of leadership, the future Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers head coach had some pointed (yet comedic) words for Nestor Aparicio and self-hatred. This will also tell you a lot about Baltimore Positive and who we are…

hineswardradiorow

Hines Ward says Ravens-Steelers rivalry is only thing he misses from playing days

Baltimore Positive

When folks ask Nestor Aparicio, “What is your favorite interview ever?” this one is high on the list. The former Pittsburgh wide receiver (who inconceivably isn’t in the Pro Football Hall of Fame) talked with Nestor and Luke Jones on Radio Row in Arizona ahead of Super Bowl XLIX. This one was fun! A perfect prelude to any Steelers-Ravens game…

Legendary Dickey Betts educates Nestor about Allman Brothers history and peace with Gregg

Nestor Aparicio

Back during their first reunion in 1990, then-syndicated music critic Nestor Aparicio had a chance to chat with guitarist Dickey Betts about The Allman Brothers. “You know, we worked together with 20 years, and we had our differences, and they don’t amount to that much,” Betts said about Gregg Allman. “Even Jesus Christ had differences with his disciples…”

Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads burns down the house with Nestor in late 1980s chat

Nestor Aparicio

Some bands break up and never reunite. And forty years later, the music of Talking Heads has only aged gracefully and wistfully and joyfully. Back in the late 1980s during his time as a music critic at The Baltimore Evening Sun, Nestor Aparicio had a chance to talk about music, David Byrne and the magic of Talking Heads with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Harrison.

The night that Debbie Harry took a ride with Ted Bundy

Baltimore Positive

During his Almost Famous music critic era at The Baltimore Sun, Nestor Aparicio interviewed hundreds of musicians and is unearthing lost tapes with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame immortals like this one from November 1989 with Debbie Harry, who was bringing her legendary band Blondie to Hammerjacks.

Talking Partridge Family and baseball with David Cassidy in 1991

Baltimore Positive

As part of his unearthing of long-form music interviews from his music critic life last century at The Baltimore Sun, this is a spirited chat with teen idol, actor and musician David Cassidy, who gave an incredible performance at Max’s On Broadway in Fell’s Point in September 1991.

Faithfully taking a 1989 Journey with open arms back to era of Bad English with Jonathan Cain

Baltimore Positive

In an effort to release all of his Almost Famous-era rock and roll interviews from his time as a music critic at The Baltimore Sun, Nestor Aparicio found an October 1989 chat with legendary keyboardist Jonathan Cain, just as his new band Bad English was approaching Hammerjacks. Some Steve Perry chatter here from four decades ago as Journey has gone its separate ways into the wheel in the sky of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame immortality.

Doubling back again with ZZ Top

Nestor Aparicio

Not many bands insisted on inviting then-youthful Baltimore Sun music critic Nestor Aparicio backstage after a concert for an interview – but ZZ Top insisted back in January 1991. Turns out when Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of the little Texas band welcomed him into their dressing room for a post-show at the Capital Centre, it was all about their work with the Delta Blues Museum. For the record, the most accommodating rock stars ever…

Talking music and success with Peter Buck of R.E.M. before Max’s On Broadway gig in Baltimore in 1990

Baltimore Positive

As the music critic of The Baltimore Evening Sun from 1986 until 1992, Nestor Aparicio interviewed dozens of Rock And Rock Hall of Fame musicians in their prime and is unearthing these magical lost tapes with legends here via Music Classic at Baltimore Positive. This is guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. who joined him in 1991 before a small gig at Max’s On Broadway in Fell’s Point with Kevn Kinney of Drivin N Cryin. At the time, Buck, along with Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Bill Berry comprised one of the biggest acts in the world and discussed the evolution, concerts, fame and success of one of the greatest American bands in music history.

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Reliving the pain of the Cobra and We Are Family

Baltimore Positive

Longtime MLB star Dave Parker talks the life of The Cobra in his new autobiography and was happy to recap the 1979 World Series pain for Nestor. He finally was voted into Cooperstown after a quarter of a century of waiting. This from April 2021.

Nasty and Nils Lofgren of E Street Band Jan. 2002 2

Nils Lofgren comes up for The Rising with Springsteen chat

Baltimore Positive

It is always a pleasure to talk rock and roll, sports and life in the great rock and roll band in the world with the great Maryland native and one time “Bullets Fever” author. Life in E Street and The Rising with the affable Lofgren on Radio Row in January 2003.

Geddy Lee Rush Randy Johnson Alex Lifeson Give A Spit

Geddy Lee of Rush talks bass and baseball

Baltimore Positive

Nestor did a Rock N Jock Baseball Preview in the 1990s and his music pals called in to talk sports. Geddy Lee checked in from Toronto to discuss the 1997 Orioles and Blue Jays.

JY Styx SanFran 2015

Being a Styx ‘Renegade’ long before it was the Steelers battle song

Baltimore Positive

After almost a half century on the road, what happens when a band has too much time on its hands? For Styx guitarist and founder James Young, it was a “mirror, mirror on the wall” chat and a time to make history answering all of the hard questions Nestor ever had since he saw them on the Cornerstone tour in February 1980.

Steven Tyler Aerosmith Nestor Aparicio 1984

Getting pumped to discuss the FINE comeback of Aerosmith in 1990

Baltimore Positive

Yeah, this pic is Steven Tyler but the modern Toxic Twins were in the middle of a glorious second run as one of the greatest bands in the world when Nestor Aparicio was the music critic for The Evening Sun in Baltimore. This is the story of how the train kept ‘a rolling on the best comeback in the history of rock and roll.

Telling the stories about when I hosted a weekly TV show with Lawrence Taylor and Buddy Ryan

Nestor Aparicio

When Nestor received an email from Elon University professor and author David Bockino about his local role in a 1997 television football picks show called “Beat The Pros” with Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor and the NFL architect of the 46 defense Buddy Ryan, he agreed to tell the whole story for the first time on the air. The stuff you remember when you think you’ve forgotten everything…

Pointing toward the legend of Larry Doby with America’s greatest living sportswriter

Baltimore Positive

Legendary 93-year old Newark Star-Ledger columnist Jerry Izenberg visits with Nestor to discuss new book: “Larry Doby in Black and White: The Story of a Baseball Pioneer” but also discusses his path as a social defender of Ali, an unbreakable Super Bowl run and his life as a journalist not “Godding up athletes.” Let him teach you something…

Laying it on the line with the great Rik Emmett of Triumph

Baltimore Positive

With a newly released memoir about his life in music and times in the Canadian band Triumph in the 1980s, guitarist Rik Emmett discusses ” “Lay It On The Line” and the stories behind a lifetime in music with Nestor from Toronto. Oh, there’s also a surprising amount of baseball chatter with this big MLB fan and historian, too!

Was Fred Lynn your favorite baseball player, too?

Baltimore Positive

Baseball legend Fred Lynn checks off a bucket list interview with Nestor, whose inner 1970s fanboy sets off a Fantasy Island of questions from Fenway Park to Memorial Stadium. If you remember that May 1985 weekend on 33rd Street right after he joined the Baltimore Orioles, this one is for you…

Trotz: Going home to finish the job in Nashville has been the ultimate challenge

Baltimore Positive

They met in the Baltimore Civic Center press box almost 40 years ago and the fire on ice of the former Baltimore Skipjacks head coach still burns. The future Hockey Hall of Fame inductee has returned to Nashville to become the Predators general manager and joins Nestor to talk about how to win another Stanley Cup on the management side and what keeps him motivated to maintain a grueling hockey life and NHL pace that is teaching him new lessons in the game.

The ice cold Orioles Hall of Fame credentials of Fancy Clancy

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore’s most beloved beer man since 1974, Clancy Haskett tells Nestor how it’ll be when Orioles finally win the World Series on Crab Cake Row Day 3 of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” from Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. And we begin the campaign to get “Fancy Clancy” into the Orioles Hall of Fame.

The complexity of The Earl Of Baltimore in “The Last Manager”

Baltimore Positive

Author and one-time Wall Street Journal reporter John Miller finally brings his Earl Weaver biography to life and joins Nestor to discuss better understanding his baseball legacy beyond the Baltimore Orioles. Join Miller and our friend John Eisenberg at Enoch Pratt Free Library on March 5th for an evening of Earl conversations.

My good walk of deep admiration and sportswriting on the brink with John Feinstein

Nestor Aparicio

John Feinstein and I had an awkwardly weird and beautiful friendship that had been strengthened by deep conversation and mutual respect over the last two decades since we somehow found ourselves in Brian Billick’s coaching office after games in stadia all over the country during the 2004 season. I know so many of you will miss his work. I will miss him.

McMillen emphasizes resilience of American democracy amidst current chaos

Baltimore Positive

It’s easy to go marching into the Madness of college basketball season with Tom McMillen but our defending forward of Congressional service and American hoops diplomacy joins Nestor to discuss a lot about Russia, the state of the world and a little about the path of the Maryland Terrapins this month.

That’s “Sir” Digital Williams now as a courtside legend enters Coppin Hall of Fame

Baltimore Positive

He’s been a visitor many times over three decades and now we can call him “Hall of Famer” Gary Williams. He’s the “other” Gary Williams of Beltway Boxing “aka” Digital, who was inducted into the Coppin State Hall of Fame after all of his years on the mic at the Coppin Center and the beautiful new Physical Education Complex. A little Eagles love here with one of our favorite local historians of the sweet science.

Making the Canton case for Marshal Yanda in bronze

Baltimore Positive

Over the past three weeks, we’ve welcomed several members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee onto the show to discuss the candidacies of Marshal Yanda, Terrell Suggs and Steve Smith Sr. Meet Tampa football sportswriter Ira Kaufman, who brings his usual sage insights on what Yanda might be the first to enter the bust room in Canton.

When the Lions didn’t roar in January

Baltimore Positive

In lieu of our traditional Super Bowl Radio Row, we’re reaching out to our NFL world to invite voters for the Pro Football Hall of Fame onto the show this week to discuss a trio of Ravens on the Canton ballot. Dave Birkett of The Detroit Free Press covers the Lions and tells Nestor what happens after you lose in January in a town that has never won The Big Game.

Will Baltimore get the Jacksonville vote?

Baltimore Positive

Our Woodlawn and Maryland defending champion Sam Kouvaris, who made a life as a Jacksonville sports television legend, returns home to report with Nestor the pains of Jaguars life and the pleasure of his 30th year on the Pro Football Hall of Fame committee examining Marshal Yanda, Terrell Suggs and Steve Smith Sr. for Canton glory.

Lamar Jackson Pittsburgh Steelers Baltimore Ravens

The Legend of Lamar and his need for a Super Bowl ring

Baltimore Positive

Football historian and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter Howard Balzer joins Nestor after another lost January for the Baltimore Ravens to discuss their historic offense and the long road of MVP quarterbacks who struggled to win a Super Bowl in the early years in the NFL. And with Marshal Yanda, Terrell Suggs and Steve Smith Sr. up for Canton busts, we ask the venerable committee member to tell us how it works.

Does King Henry have a season or two left in him?

Baltimore Positive

The praise for the offense of the Baltimore Ravens is universal but they’re still not playing football into late January. Pro Football Hall of Fame voter and Houston legend John McClain joins Nestor to discuss “next year” for Lamar and C.J. Stroud in chasing Super Bowl rings and why Derrick Henry is still the key to the short-term future and the local possibilities of another purple parade.

Making a case for NFL greatness with Buffalo Hall of Fame voter Vic Carucci

Baltimore Positive

In an era where an MVP debate between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen can be divisive, we defer to the legendary Hall of Fame voter and NFL historian Vic Carucci, who joins Nestor from Buffalo to discuss what makes a quarterback “valuable” and how he thinks of Ravens’ Canton candidates Terrell Suggs, Marshal Yanda and Steve Smith Sr. Oh, and there’s a little football game in Orchard Park this weekend with huge stakes in our hometowns.

The international money, gambling and most influential sports league in the world hasn’t snuck up on agent Leigh Steinberg

Baltimore Positive

Talking NFL revenue, player contracts, union leverage and the future of American sports leagues all over the world with our returning champion and super agent Leigh Steinberg, who joins Nestor to discuss the lineage of the billions of dollars and jobs of the NFL offseason as another Super Bowl tournament begins with his quarterback Patrick Mahomes watching football this weekend and waiting for another chance for a Lombardi Trophy.

An unlikely Baltimore and Pittsburgh friendship: How Mike Tomlin really feels about Nestor

Nestor Aparicio

Back in 2016 when Mike Tomlin joined John Harbaugh and Brian Billick on stage in downtown Baltimore for “A Night of Heroes” and Super Bowl championship stories of leadership, the future Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers head coach had some pointed (yet comedic) words for Nestor Aparicio and self-hatred. This will also tell you a lot about Baltimore Positive and who we are…

hineswardradiorow

Hines Ward says Ravens-Steelers rivalry is only thing he misses from playing days

Baltimore Positive

When folks ask Nestor Aparicio, “What is your favorite interview ever?” this one is high on the list. The former Pittsburgh wide receiver (who inconceivably isn’t in the Pro Football Hall of Fame) talked with Nestor and Luke Jones on Radio Row in Arizona ahead of Super Bowl XLIX. This one was fun! A perfect prelude to any Steelers-Ravens game…

Legendary Dickey Betts educates Nestor about Allman Brothers history and peace with Gregg

Nestor Aparicio

Back during their first reunion in 1990, then-syndicated music critic Nestor Aparicio had a chance to chat with guitarist Dickey Betts about The Allman Brothers. “You know, we worked together with 20 years, and we had our differences, and they don’t amount to that much,” Betts said about Gregg Allman. “Even Jesus Christ had differences with his disciples…”

Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads burns down the house with Nestor in late 1980s chat

Nestor Aparicio

Some bands break up and never reunite. And forty years later, the music of Talking Heads has only aged gracefully and wistfully and joyfully. Back in the late 1980s during his time as a music critic at The Baltimore Evening Sun, Nestor Aparicio had a chance to talk about music, David Byrne and the magic of Talking Heads with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Harrison.

The night that Debbie Harry took a ride with Ted Bundy

Baltimore Positive

During his Almost Famous music critic era at The Baltimore Sun, Nestor Aparicio interviewed hundreds of musicians and is unearthing lost tapes with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame immortals like this one from November 1989 with Debbie Harry, who was bringing her legendary band Blondie to Hammerjacks.

Talking Partridge Family and baseball with David Cassidy in 1991

Baltimore Positive

As part of his unearthing of long-form music interviews from his music critic life last century at The Baltimore Sun, this is a spirited chat with teen idol, actor and musician David Cassidy, who gave an incredible performance at Max’s On Broadway in Fell’s Point in September 1991.

Faithfully taking a 1989 Journey with open arms back to era of Bad English with Jonathan Cain

Baltimore Positive

In an effort to release all of his Almost Famous-era rock and roll interviews from his time as a music critic at The Baltimore Sun, Nestor Aparicio found an October 1989 chat with legendary keyboardist Jonathan Cain, just as his new band Bad English was approaching Hammerjacks. Some Steve Perry chatter here from four decades ago as Journey has gone its separate ways into the wheel in the sky of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame immortality.

Doubling back again with ZZ Top

Nestor Aparicio

Not many bands insisted on inviting then-youthful Baltimore Sun music critic Nestor Aparicio backstage after a concert for an interview – but ZZ Top insisted back in January 1991. Turns out when Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of the little Texas band welcomed him into their dressing room for a post-show at the Capital Centre, it was all about their work with the Delta Blues Museum. For the record, the most accommodating rock stars ever…

Talking music and success with Peter Buck of R.E.M. before Max’s On Broadway gig in Baltimore in 1990

Baltimore Positive

As the music critic of The Baltimore Evening Sun from 1986 until 1992, Nestor Aparicio interviewed dozens of Rock And Rock Hall of Fame musicians in their prime and is unearthing these magical lost tapes with legends here via Music Classic at Baltimore Positive. This is guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. who joined him in 1991 before a small gig at Max’s On Broadway in Fell’s Point with Kevn Kinney of Drivin N Cryin. At the time, Buck, along with Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Bill Berry comprised one of the biggest acts in the world and discussed the evolution, concerts, fame and success of one of the greatest American bands in music history.

Screen Shot 2021 04 16 at 5.29.17 AM

Reliving the pain of the Cobra and We Are Family

Baltimore Positive

Longtime MLB star Dave Parker talks the life of The Cobra in his new autobiography and was happy to recap the 1979 World Series pain for Nestor. He finally was voted into Cooperstown after a quarter of a century of waiting. This from April 2021.

Nasty and Nils Lofgren of E Street Band Jan. 2002 2

Nils Lofgren comes up for The Rising with Springsteen chat

Baltimore Positive

It is always a pleasure to talk rock and roll, sports and life in the great rock and roll band in the world with the great Maryland native and one time “Bullets Fever” author. Life in E Street and The Rising with the affable Lofgren on Radio Row in January 2003.

Geddy Lee Rush Randy Johnson Alex Lifeson Give A Spit

Geddy Lee of Rush talks bass and baseball

Baltimore Positive

Nestor did a Rock N Jock Baseball Preview in the 1990s and his music pals called in to talk sports. Geddy Lee checked in from Toronto to discuss the 1997 Orioles and Blue Jays.

JY Styx SanFran 2015

Being a Styx ‘Renegade’ long before it was the Steelers battle song

Baltimore Positive

After almost a half century on the road, what happens when a band has too much time on its hands? For Styx guitarist and founder James Young, it was a “mirror, mirror on the wall” chat and a time to make history answering all of the hard questions Nestor ever had since he saw them on the Cornerstone tour in February 1980.

Steven Tyler Aerosmith Nestor Aparicio 1984

Getting pumped to discuss the FINE comeback of Aerosmith in 1990

Baltimore Positive

Yeah, this pic is Steven Tyler but the modern Toxic Twins were in the middle of a glorious second run as one of the greatest bands in the world when Nestor Aparicio was the music critic for The Evening Sun in Baltimore. This is the story of how the train kept ‘a rolling on the best comeback in the history of rock and roll.

Telling the stories about when I hosted a weekly TV show with Lawrence Taylor and Buddy Ryan

Nestor Aparicio

When Nestor received an email from Elon University professor and author David Bockino about his local role in a 1997 television football picks show called “Beat The Pros” with Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor and the NFL architect of the 46 defense Buddy Ryan, he agreed to tell the whole story for the first time on the air. The stuff you remember when you think you’ve forgotten everything…

Pointing toward the legend of Larry Doby with America’s greatest living sportswriter

Baltimore Positive

Legendary 93-year old Newark Star-Ledger columnist Jerry Izenberg visits with Nestor to discuss new book: “Larry Doby in Black and White: The Story of a Baseball Pioneer” but also discusses his path as a social defender of Ali, an unbreakable Super Bowl run and his life as a journalist not “Godding up athletes.” Let him teach you something…

Laying it on the line with the great Rik Emmett of Triumph

Baltimore Positive

With a newly released memoir about his life in music and times in the Canadian band Triumph in the 1980s, guitarist Rik Emmett discusses ” “Lay It On The Line” and the stories behind a lifetime in music with Nestor from Toronto. Oh, there’s also a surprising amount of baseball chatter with this big MLB fan and historian, too!

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