Turbo Trusser Inventors and Shark Tank Contestants, Brian Halasinski and Kirk Hyust and Barry Sparks, Author of The Search for the Next Mickey Mantle

Brian Halasinski and Kirk Hyust have a passion for inventing.  They see a problem and create a solution.  Their latest invention turns the difficult process of trussing a chicken into a fun and quick alternative.  Trussing a chicken allows it to cook evenly and neatly, but until now it was a very difficult endeavor which called for butcher twine and an advanced degree.  Their invention, Turbo Trusser is such a good one that they were chosen to appear on TV's Shark Tank and managed to obtain a deal from one of the sharks.  Brian and Kirk take us inside the inventing process and behind the scenes of the hit television show.  They currently have one Turbo Trusser for chicken and one for turkey, but as we learned there is much more on the horizon.

Barry Sparks has been writing about baseball for more than 50 years.  His first article was published in the July 1970 Baseball Digest.  He has written for more than 70 national and regional publications, including the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, National Pastime, Sports Collectors Digest, Sports Parade, Phillies Report, 50 Plus Life, and many others. His latest endeavor is the book, The Search for the Next Mantle:  From Tom Tresh to Bryce Harper.  Barry takes us on a search which has mostly proven fruitless with the exception of two current players, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper.  Some of the players tagged with the daunting task of being the next Mickey Mantle are household names and some are not, but Barry's research provides us with intriguing facts.

We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

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