'Cup of Coffee With Steve Berthiaume' premieres Sunday on FOX Sports Arizona
FOX Sports Arizona continues its unmatched television coverage of the Arizona Diamondbacks with another offering from its Emmy Award-winning original programming department when the new half-hour interview series called “Cup of Coffee With Steve Berthiaume” premieres Sunday, May 5, at 4 p.m. (or right after the Diamondbacks-Padres game ends).
The show is shot on location in downtown Phoenix at the popular Chloe’s Corner in CityScape during the height of lunch hour. Throughout this six-episode series, Berthiaume will lead casual conversations with members of the Arizona Diamondbacks about their lives, interests away from the diamond and their road to where they are today.
The guest for Sunday’s premiere will be Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick. With candor, great story telling and humor, he touches on a variety of personal topics, including growing up in West Virginia, his start in the software industry, how he fell in love with baseball and his ownership of the most valuable and famous baseball card in history.
Here is a preview clip of him talking about the famous T206 Honus Wagner card he owns and his comments about whether he will ever sell it:
“I am a collector. I do not trade cards. I acquire them for the collector’s interests I have. My entire life of being a collector, I have sold only one card – a non-baseball card that I had to acquire to get other baseball cards. It was a basketball card and I sold it because it was a basketball card. I have never sold a baseball card – ever – and I don’t plan to sell.
“I have a son who I want the collection to be a legacy for.”
On getting involved in the computer software industry: “My company was an early technology company in the software world. In fact, how I date myself is, the word software had not been coined at the time.”
Regarding attending West Virginia University, he joked: “I had a great time – I shouldn’t remark that even then, it was rated as the No. 1 party school in America, and I guess some of us would still be proud to say we maintained that ranking throughout the years.”
The “Cup of Coffee With Steve Berthiaume” series will contain six episodes. After Sunday’s premiere with Ken Kendrick, Miguel Montero is the next subject on the schedule. That show debuts Sunday, June 2 at 2 p.m.
