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Baseball: Skip Bertman & the Houston Astros (2014)

Newsmakers

Details

Collection:LPB

Genre: Speech

Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Houston, Texas

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2014-01-22

Duration: 00:28:27

Subjects: Rotary Club of Baton Rouge | BERTMAN, SKIP | Sports | BASEBALL | Houston Astros (Baseball team)

Contributors:

  • Bertman, Skip Speaker
  • Kahoalii, Creighton Speaker
  • Sparks, Steve Speaker
  • Zeid, Josh Speaker
  • Fields, Josh Speaker
  • Wallace, Brett Speaker

Description

A presentation on baseball before the Baton Rouge Rotary Club on January 22, 2014. Skip Bertman, the former LSU baseball coach and athletic director, discusses the sport of baseball in general. Creighton Kahoalii, the Director of Corporate Sponsorship, and Steve Sparks, radio announcer, for the Houston Astros discuss the rebuilding of the team. Kahoalli, Sparks, and three Astros players, Josh Zeid, Josh Field, and Brett Wallace, also answer questions from the audience.