Podcast Episodes

Infinite Inning 357: Angels Up the Where and Baseball True Love

Episode 357

Infinite Inning 357 Angels Up the Where? and Baseball True Love In a holiday mini-episode we talk about secular vs. religious holidays in America, the films of Powell and Pressburger, and the faith-b…

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Infinite Inning 356: Did a Hall of Fame Manager Break Three Prospects?

Episode 356

Infinite Inning 356 Did a Hall of Fame Manager Break Three Prospects? A long-promised Casey Stengel episode asks why the press reacted badly when the Ol’ Perfesser was named Yankees manager in the fa…

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Infinite Inning Reissue 26 (039): Trumpian Baseball Math

In this week’s new commentary, we wonder how major league strikeout leader James Wood can reduce his strikeouts by 600 percent in 2026. Then we return to early 2008 for a look at some deleterious, fr…

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Infinite Inning 355: Several Tragic People Named McGann, Some In Baseball, Some Not

Pete Alonso’s exit from New York triggers an exploration of an earlier first baseman who was not only dispensable, but mocked for the very fact of his aging. Expect more John McGraw shouting, Deadbal…

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Infinite Inning Reissue 25 (077): The Death of Addie Joss Explained and Old-Time Cheating Too

Infinite Inning Reissue 025 (077) The Death of Addie Joss Explained and Old-Time Cheating Too In this week’s new segment, we talk about some fringe major leaguers named Truck and Hunky who were big i…

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Infinite Inning 354: A Pitcher Named Bumpus And Other Upbeat Tales Of Baseball

Episode 354

We return from the IL with Casey Stengel’s endorsement of the designated hitter, and of astronauts too, then springboard from the recent Red Sox-Pirates trade into a discussion fo the latter’s inabil…

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Infinite Inning 353: The Catcher Who Loved Me

Episode 353

A pitcher throws a great game in the World Series and is congratulated by a backstop unknown to him, but once he was known to the game. Then we travel back to 1917 when gamblers tried to fix a White …

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Infinite Inning Reissue 24 (106): Got Those Girl Don’t Want You Team Signed Charlie Hayes Blues

In this week’s new material, we compare a team signing a low-OBP player to the girl you were crushing on choosing the only suitor you would have had her avoid (not that it was up to you, but also not…

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Infinite Inning 352: Why Are There Bad People When There is Also Good Baseball

Episode 352

We look at an ordinary day of baseball, May 8, 1949, and some extraordinary—and tragic—things that happened. First, a couple of good pitchers get shelled, then we witness some typically disposable re…

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Infinite Inning Reissue 23 (021): Live! Home Run! Baseball!

In the new commentary segment of this week’s reissue episode, we talk about childhood fears of the end times, the degraded state of Times Square in the 1970s and 1980s, the slugging 1964 Twins, and o…

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