On the NBA Beat Ep. 195: "Interstate '85" Book Special With Marshall Garvey

On the NBA Beat Ep. 195: "Interstate '85" Book Special With Marshall Garvey

From On the NBA Beat by Aaron Fischman, Loren Lee Chen

April 13, 2026 · 49 min · Season 11 · Episode 2

About this episode

Marshall Garvey discusses his book 'Interstate '85' and the significance of the 1985 World Series.

Marshall Garvey, author of Interstate '85: The Royals, the Cardinals and the Show-Me World Series , joins the show. Enjoy! Here are some highlights – 3:26-4:39 : “The ’85 Series always stuck in my mind in a really weird way just because of all the emphasis on Don Denkinger’s missed call. It just seemed a little jaundiced to me, but it stayed in my head for 20 years, kinda rattling around in there. It got even more layers in my mind when the Royals finally won it again in the mid-2010s. … My buddy Jonathan Daniel, he wrote the book Suds Series…that’s the ’82 World Series. That (book) got me on a train of thought when I was taking a run one day…and it just like blew up in mind, like, ‘Oh, my god, ’85, no one’s really written about this. … I’m gonna write the definitive book about ’85 and find out there was more than The Call,’ and boy, oh boy, did that turn out to be true.” 7:17-8:40 : “It meant everything. This World Series was just, and still is over 40 years later, an epochal moment in Missouri’s entire history, and Missouri has a really rich history, with lots of innovation, lots of crucial events both for the country and even the world at large. … It was especially a point of…

People in this episode

Guest: Marshall Garvey

Topics covered

  • Interstate '85
  • World Series
  • Missouri history

Keywords

  • Royals
  • Cardinals
  • Don Denkinger
  • baseball history

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Nintendo Switch, Return of the Obra Dinn, Interstate '85: The Royals, the Cardinals and the Show-Me World Series

Books & works: Interstate '85, Suds Series, The Call, The Wax Pack

Places: Missouri

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