John Franco talks LEGENDARY Baseball Career and Growing Up Italian

EPISODE 311. Happy Easter everyone! What better way to kick off the MLB season than with the all time MLB lefties saves leader, John Franco? John joins us for his now second appearance on the show to talk about his upbringing, career in the MLB, and we even talk about how he got absolutely SNUBBED on the Hall Of Fame Ballot. We are also joined by Carmine Gangone of the Italian American Baseball Foundation.

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1:00 - intro/naples
5:00 - growing up/St. John’s
9:00 - start of pro career
13:00 - dealing with NY media
19:00 - giving Piazza #31
22:00 - subway series run
25:00 - toughest batters to face
28:00 - Yankees clubhouse at Shea stadium
33:00 - ADV
33:00 - feelings on today’s MLB
37:00 - playing after 9/11
42:00 - wearing Father’s DSNY shirt
44:00 - pre-game meals
46:00 - why isn’t John Franco in the HOF?
48:00 - guess this HOF’er
54:00 - getting set up in Naples
56:00 - Italian American Baseball Foundation
1:03:00 - top 5 Italian baseball players
1:08:00 - Mets season prediction