The Rock Solid Dr. Tom Robbins & Nancy DeLaney Interview By Jimmy Scott About Marriage In Baseball

Long title for a very complex subject.  Think about this: You're a married ballplayer, or you're married to a ballplayer, and the season just ended yesterday.  The guy has basically been out of the house since February, either physically or mentally, and now he's back for the next four months.  How do you adjust if you're either person?  And if this is hard, how do you do it when the career ends?

Enter current Red Sox pitcher Paul Byrd & his wife Kym.  If you listen to THIS INTERVIEW with Kym I posted in August, you'll learn not only about her specific marriage but about the research study she and Paul commissioned a ways back to study the problems baseball marriages go through.  The questions asked of more than 70 MLB couples can be seen HERE.

Listen to what Dr. Tom Robbins & Nancy DeLaney, the lead researchers who are married to each other, by the way, have to say about their findings.  You're going to raise your eyebrows more than once when you hear the stories they have to tell.  Even better, they didn't fight with each other on the phone once.  Not once.  And between them they've sired six kids.  Six!  Now that's one happy marriage.

THE MUSIC

 The High Fives - Never Come Back (Intro & Outro)

The Allman Bros. - Whipping Post, Jessica, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Dario Marianelli - Pride & Prejudice Soundtrack

Sting - I Miss You Kate

The Who - Quadrophenia, The Rock

Pete Townshend - Unused Piano "Quadrophenia"

Frank Sinatra - Love & Marriage