Podcast Episodes

Infinite Inning Reissue 3 (013): Derek Jeter, Joe Biden, and the Dumbest Conspiracy

Before we revisit episode 13 and it’s discussion of the O’Connell-Dolan scandal, starring a player and a coach lately sprung off the banned list by Rob Manfred, we have a new introduction discussing …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning 331: Runners Down in the Lanes

Episode 331

The secret to managers’ success is revealed and dispensed with, in a hypothetical version of 1976, George Steinbrenner gifts Reggie Jackson with a plane, Hal Chase isn’t off the list because he was n…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 2 (006): Go Home, Snooks!

Episode 330

In this return to one of this baseball podcast’s earliest episodes, we discover two utility infielders, the Yankees’ Wayne Tolleson and, well, nobody’s Snooks Dowd (he was a Tigers, A’s, and Dodgers …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 330: The Great Boston Red Sox Depression

Episode 330

A pope who supposedly wanted baseball but caved to the Nazis instead, an amateur pitcher who cost a team a pennant, the Perdicaris incident, a Pirates manager is fired and the way his predecessor res…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 1 (146): The Rulebreakers & The .399 Loser

Episode 329

For the show’s first reissue, we return to an episode from almost precisely five years ago which compares players who wouldn’t follow rules and inspired their clubs not to follow rules back, a subjec…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning: 328 Some of Us Just Have a Type

Episode 328

We consider the legacy of the great Venezuelan players who have graced the game going back to Alex Carrasquel in 1939, constructing an all-star team of players from that beleaguered nation. What can …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 327: Moon, Sheriff, Dutch, and the Mighty Quinn

Episode 327

We begin with two players who would have been crowded off of modern rosters, and also couldn’t have made the 1970s Oakland A’s due to the owner’s insistence on carrying two pinch-runners at once. The…

Published on 4 months ago

Infinite Inning 326: The Cult of Pennant Park

Episode 326

We visit the high-flying world of Florida real estate speculation 100 years ago with the volatile manager of the New York Giants John J. McGraw. When the bubble burst, would it be a case of murder?

T…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning 325: No Dead Man Should Have a Watch This Nice

We examine the Los Angeles Angels’ hot start in light of the 1987 Milwaukee Brewers’ hot start and what happened afterwards, and stumble across a writer saying inappropriate things about Spike Owen a…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 324: The Way We Live Now (Again)

Episode 324

Infinite Inning 324: The Way We Live Now (Again) In a largely improvised episode we reexperience current events through the lens of Joe DiMaggio’s 1941 hitting streak, counting the days while the war…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago