Podcast Episodes

Infinite Inning 282: Committed to Glaring Mistakes

Episode 282

For very personal but with luck very premature reasons, we ask whether the great Giants manager John McGraw ever made peace with his father and explore the confused timeline of his passing before bri…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Infinite Inning 281: Night of the Ambulance Horse

Christy Mathewson pitches one of his worst best games and John McGraw gets ejected, though probably not because of his umbrella; Gene Woodling smokes a pipe while playing for the Mets; and does compl…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Infinite Inning 280: Romancing the Cobbian Poodle

Episode 280

A Yankees player’s marriage goes wrong faster than he could steal bases and Judge Landis makes a category error. 

The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman dis…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Infinite Inning 279: Murder in My Heart for the Ump

Episode 279

A return engagement for Pepper Martin in which he loses his cool in a big way and we consider an obscure reliever… With a cameo from the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson?

The Infinite Inning is not…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Infinite Inning 278: Delia's Gone

Episode 278

Young Ruth Nollard meets the wrong baseball player in 1900, and we realize that in some ways very little has changed, plus a number of famous players come to the border and some try to turn them away…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Infinite Inning 277: No Boxers, No Briefs, No Mercy

In which the hazards of playing baseball without first properly girding one’s loins is investigated through the person of Pepper Martin, with other plentiful stops along the trail.

The Infinite Inning…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Infinite Inning 276: The One With the Anatomical Impossibility

Episode 276

The host is sick, Dizzy Dean is overweight, and an umpire threatens to do the impossible to a rookie second baseman.

The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman,…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Infinite Inning 275: Saving Mr. Williams

A pitcher has a dominant game despite accusations that his balls are greasy, and then we go to the immediate postwar period to discuss the early days of the Cold War, its relationship to the current …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Infinite Inning 274: Who Looks Out for the Lookouts?

Episode 274

This week, a lighthearted look at a Hall of Famer who spent four games demolishing one of Casey Stengel’s early teams and then an extended discussion of a catcher and a pitcher who both had off-the-f…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Infinite Inning 273: All the Three-Fingered Young Dudes

In which a veteran pitcher gets the last strikeout of his career in a meaningless inning and yet the moment is somehow triumphal—or tragic, depending on your point of view—and several pitchers with m…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago