Title: Preview: 'Touching the Game: Alaska'

" You hear about it achieved you know immense experience UV you can explain it forever until you see it you just don't believe it -- truly doesn't go down. The birds just keep quiet. There are people on the street. You know tonight."

" It was fun it was a great experience you know some. Then I I would never done beautifully for the league's. Save baseball asking you kind of go yeah right. A lot of good players have gone through there. Don't go into the blackout shades and who made the remark -- it's. It's -- falsely. How would she moves all the time driving. Or you really don't have an idea how big they are until you FEMA confident every. Did quite a bit efficient atomic closet and have a volleyball net went down below water. Caught some salmon. Where else would you wanna spend your summer to stay out of trouble and played baseball you know I was blessed. You have fun up there it was redneck south Georgia did not -- wilderness somewhere around just like we -- a -- you know. We're gonna get."

" My question is did Billy actually stay out of trouble. I don't know doubtful for -- definitely doubtful touching the game Alaska folks and this is an unbelievable dvd two with a man. Put together James Carroll and it -- you know gentlemen thanks for being appreciated her last chance to optic just like a who's who of Major League Baseball so many different stars that you went through this process with it and obviously the passion. With which they speak about their experience it is pretty --"

" Yet it's it's it's a different world out there it's really kind of bait. Boys to men type of thing a lot of college is like sending their players up there and -- room mom and it's kind of rugged the Landon and the travel and and everything up there at a wildlife as well -- and most of the great players that have been up there really really point to that time out there it's like really really tone in this bill."

" Anthony I mean you wouldn't think I said I'm from the cape I covered -- league baseball. I understand that I never thought Alaskan based on never really couldn't get obviously my careers -- you hear the stories you see these guys come from -- There's such -- and -- history for all these clips and it's it's been around for longer than anybody can imagine him playing the midnight -- game. On the summer solstice is between 10:30 and 11 o'clock at night for. Under in four years now so it's it's older than the cape -- gets. Its -- just about any other -- somehow -- comes about the midnight Sunday amounts of part of the peace and it's it's a pretty amazing event. Yet it's it it draws the biggest crowds up there and it's gotten the most exposure in the most attention and it really is that it in Fairbanks it's it's one of the culminating events of there weeklong and weekend festival around the solstice and the reason that they do that is because. The -- virtually never sets up there I mean you get 22 hours 23 hours of sun above the horizon in the middle this I would say that's when Billy not a done his most damage. I just how does that -- compared to the tape I mean. Obviously when you look at the guys that Tom -- Dave went for just because you saw in the piece J. D. Drew Terry Francona I mean so many different players out of the compare."

" Yeah well I historically. It it probably has greater history and McCain. And that in the sixties and seventies all the west coast schools big powerhouses USC Arizona State they. They sent all the players up there. Com today it's kind of shifted now the cape cape league has become the number one league and all the colleges and that. Biggest talent there. But but -- it still gets there this year our players especially from the west coast. Either they come up as a freshman in college with a get a lot of you go a small college players. -- you an example Jacoby Ellsbury he played in Alaska his freshman year in college. Went to the -- a sophomore here so. So if you look at the 60s70s. And eighties that the names for Alaska's unbelievable now what's a little bit less but it still rate based on what."

" The central. Features of this piece is beau mills the -- beat Brad Mills was on the bench coach for the Red Sox who knows he may be the manager of the Houston Astros false hadn't done it. Then build them up as a first round draft pick in Cleveland Indians and is on the fast track and he's won here gotten a start."

" Yeah we just lucked out the kind of went the opposite way he he played a year in the cape and then he went to Alaska because it was switching colleges at the time. And you know it turns out -- do with his father who also played. On the tape in the seventies when he was there to another reason lightbulb went up to Alaska and with lucked out -- what -- at the midnight -- game with them we went fishing with them. We follow them around a little bit and he had a terrific -- the following year after that summer and he was number one draft pick to Cleveland Indians now he's just finished in double leg. -- they maybe two more years he'll be."

" The magic touch in touch in the game Alaska that allowed them obviously both of them are the biggest thing at the kind of blew me away here to. No league offices and a kick -- baseball -- anybody who's dealt with it a very detailed president secretaries the whole nine yards. This is just organizations get together you are we're playing you did you play this that I. How to make that work."

" Well I don't know I don't know that they do make it we're gonna be -- them inside. There's a lot of squabbling going on you know they they get there they they've had a -- a real kind of contentious history because you have sixteen since there's been more teams throughout its history and fewer teens. And they're so loosely organized that they basically just call each other. Get together and say okay this is the schedule let's go ahead play the schedule. But the that the politics in Alaska in general are pretty significant and within the cape league are the same way as. It's part of one of the interesting things in our story I think is another in a bad way I'm not trying to denigrate their relationships at all. They they they get along very well except for they all have very strong opinions and they enforce their own opinions. And it's led to trouble I mean they're there are times in the league when. They couldn't agree three teams split off three teams went here they didn't play each other they didn't get together for two years and eventually they get back together so yeah. It's an interesting loose assemblage of organizations but they make it work in that inimitable. Alaska fashion and sounds very cold right now between working people get this to tell them and tell what the deal as well to confine this because obviously I'm I'm telling -- watched it. The individuals everything the stories you wanna be part of this dominant -- www. Touching the game dot com. And it's available right now for pre order the dvd will officially be released on on November 30. And you can also get cape league film there you can buy and has packaging combined individually. And then. It will also be available in retailers here in New England in Alaska. Around the country Amazon. Netflix you can rent -- there's a variety of different you get all that information on our web site -- that's."

" Perfect Anthony James appreciate very much because coming and I'm telling you if you're a baseball fan or sports fan in general. Get involved with a whole package some -- trust me you won't be disappointed and all thanks very much yet again that touching the game Alaska that's it would not -- talk top sports stories. There right around the corner we'll -- out this."