Upcoming Events

Thursday, February 19, 2026: Presentation on Before They Wore Dodger Blue at the Port Townsend (WA) Public Library, 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 11, 2026: Presentation on Before They Wore Dodger Blue at the Los Angeles Public Library Central Branch, 630 W. 5th Street, 2:00 to 3:30 pm. Co-event with Steve Dittmore, author of Jim Gilliam: The Forgotten Dodger. Moderated by sportswriter/author Tom Hoffarth.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026: Presentation on the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals and Runnin’ Redbirds at The State Historical Society of Missouri, 605 Elm Street in Columbia, Missouri, 12:00 to 1:00 pm.

Sunday, May 31, 2026: Zoom presentation on Before They Wore Dodger Blue as part of the Babe Ruth Museum speakers series.

As Seen On

Select TV, Radio, and Podcast Interviews

Before They Wore Dodger Blue:

• Exploring Washington State Podcast
• The Ace Sports Radio (Southern Oregon)
• Controlled Chaos (KCAA Radio, Loma Linda, CA)
• WPHM Morning Show (Port Huron, MI)
• ESPN Radio (Albuquerque)
• WGBB SportsTalk New York (includes Bill Donohue’s interview with Tom Paciorek!)

Season of Shattered Dreams:

• Radio interview with Bill Swartz on Puget Sound Now
• Television appearance on New Day Northwest (KING5 Seattle)
• Alan Alford Sports Talk Show
• Spokane Public Radio interview
• The Curious Man Podcast
• Good Seats Still Available Podcast
• Bookin’ Podcast with Jason Jefferies
• Exploring Washington State Podcast
• Voices of Experience Podcast with Paul Casey
• Historically Speaking Sports Podcast
• The Twin Bill Podcast

Runnin’ Redbirds:

• Marty Lurie on KNBR (San Francisco Giants pregame show)
• Earned Fun Average Podcast
• Interview with Tom Ackerman on KMOX St. Louis (EV interview starts at 29:00)
• Interview on Sports 56 WHBQ Memphis

Other Press

My author page with the Society for American Baseball Research: https://sabr.org/authors/eric-vickrey/

Q&A with Mark Tomasik from Retro Simba about Runnin’ Redbirds

Zoom Presentation to the SABR Central Illinois Chapter on Runnin’ Redbirds

Book review of Runnin’ Redbirds by Andy Heckroth of Redbird Rants

Daily Record Q&A (Ellensburg, WA) about Season of Shattered Dreams

“A Promising Team, a Fatal Crash in Snoqualmie Pass,” in Seattle Met Magazine (Season of Shattered Dreams excerpt)

Article in the Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) about Season of Shattered Dreams

Kittitas County Historical Museum Lecture: “Season of Shattered Dreams”

Review of Season of Shattered Dreams by Brett Windisch of The Skippers View podcast

Season of Shattered Dreams in the Seattle Times‘ Now and Then Column (published 10/3/24)

At the Spokane Indians Bus Crash Site Near Snoqualmie Pass

The Baseball Bucket List Podcast: 1980s Cardinals, 1946 Spokane Indians, and 2011 Game Six Heroics

Antithetical Iron Horse — my piece on Manual Lee in Portion Under Busch (St. Louis Cardinals Literary Journal)

Media Requests

For media requests, email me here.