The weekend shows begin at midnight, and Tourangeau, tonight, is appearing on the program from midnight until 2 a.m. The
discussion, at least in part, will concern the recently-concluded World Series.
Tourangeau--an enjoyable and knowledgeable radio guest--is a
baseball researcher and historian. He's a longtime member of the Society for
American Baseball Research.
A 2007 article about Tourangeau, in the Worcester (MA) Telegram,
included the following: "He seems
to know everything there is to know about every baseball player who ever wore a
Major League uniform..."
In his appearances on The
Morgan Show, Tourangeau (whom I've come to know, due to my own affiliation
with Morgan's program) also discusses, periodically, the subject of National
Parks. For nearly three decades, he
worked, in Boston, for the National Park Service. For the last fourteen years
of his NPS career, he was a ranger, at Boston
National Historic Park (which includes Charlestown's
Bunker Hill Monument). While now
retired from the NPS, he continues, on a volunteer basis, to lead tours of
the USS Cassin Young, at the Charlestown Navy Yard (which is also part of Boston National Historic Park); the warship was built, and first deployed,
during World War II. (By the way: the last tours of the season, for the ship, take place this Monday, Veterans Day.)
Tourangeau, one therefore notes, is well-versed regarding
two types of parks: national parks, and baseball
parks. To date, he told me in an e-mail,
he has visited about half of the some 420 National Park Service sites in the
United States. He has also visited all
of the current parks of Major League Baseball.
