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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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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 p…
2 years, 1 month 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 a…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Infinite Inning 272: The Schiappacasse Files
A forgotten left-handed great goes to Augusta and finds three other players in search of a destiny, but none of them gets precisely what he wants, an…
2 years, 2 months ago
Infinite Inning 271: Pigeon of the American Mind
Episode 271
A shortstop has two wives (but finds time to invent the padded glove), a .330-hitting outfielder is driven off because of his tan, and a Native Ameri…
2 years, 3 months ago
Infinite Inning 270: The HOBE Factor
This week a discussion of sadism as a way to pass the time with two tales from the early 20th century, one involving a violent Red Sox second baseman…
2 years, 3 months ago