Podcast Episodes

Infinite Inning 373: Baseball and Helen's Missing Cup

Two managers dropped this week, but four teams haven’t fired a manager in-season since the last century. Which were they, and is there even a point? …

18 hours ago

Infinite Inning 372: The Yankees' Owner’s Mistress and the Bomb

A major metropolitan newspaper contends a pitcher “blows,” while he insists he is in “the best shape of his life.” Which would prove to be closer to …

1 week ago

Infinite Inning 371: One of the Jackie Robinson Generation Weak Arm and All

We note the recent passing of some stalwart ballplayers, some of all too recent a vintage, then travel back to the 1950s and the breaking of the Brav…

2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 370: The Ballplayer's Lost Bones

In which we track the posthumous career of one of baseball’s earliest players, who might simultaneously lie in three different places or maybe nowher…

3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 369: An Odd Cardinals Walk-Off or a Typical Cubs Loss?

Episode 369

Infinite Inning 369: An Odd Cardinals Walk-Off or a Typical Cubs Loss?
First we ask an evergreen question prompted by Konnor Griffin’s promotion: Were…

4 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 368: Baseball, War, and the Day the $100,000 Infield Buried a Child

Episode 368

Two players who might have made the Hall of Fame if not for time missed to national service during World War II stand in for all of those whose traje…

1 month ago

Infinite Inning 367: Baseball, the Yankees, and Bitterness

Episode 367

In which we talk about some of our own broken relationships, the war of Billy Martin’s ear and what George Steinbrenner’s plan to bring him back for …

1 month, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning 366: The Yankee Who Went to Sea (The Wife Sent Him)

Episode 366

A pitcher named Bob becomes Sailor Bob all because his wife wanted him out of the house in a fatal way, then we revisit the 1880s and a truly ridicul…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 365: When the Yankees Tried to Be the Cardinals

Episode 365

How the King of France once had an illicit love life that bore both a great resemblance to that of some of our current villains, but was also kind of…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 364: The Pitcher Who Didn’t Duck and the Artist Who Was a Hypocrite

Episode 364

This week, a light-hearted tale of a pitcher who braved the injury nexus in a body that just refused to flinch when under hostile fire, preceded by t…

2 months ago