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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 Pirate…
9 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 inspi…
9 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 …
9 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 ins…
10 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…
10 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 wri…
10 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 19…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Infinite Inning 323: I Fought the Law
Episode 323
We debate whether a victim of the First World War and the 1918 influenza pandemic was the heretofore unidentifiable Greatest Lost Prospect, we make a…
11 months ago
Infinite Inning 322: Hollywood Crossed with Uz
A pitcher reaching a breaking point with his creator sends us scurrying back to the Old Testament for guidance, and then we unpack the stories behind…
11 months ago
Infinite Inning 321: Man's Life's a Gamble
Casey Stengel (our mascot, hero, and deity) steals a couple of uniforms and feels bad about it, and then a successful manager of the Red Sox is fired…
11 months, 1 week ago