Podcast Episodes

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 Steve’s Baseball Prospectus column this week, a r…

Published on 9 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 under dubious circumstances, and then virtually e…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning 320: The Fatal Bellow of the Man They Called Horse

A sportswriter faces his own irrelevance on the morning after Pearl Harbor and finds a way back to baseball, and then a pitcher loses it and reignites a brawl that had already ended—featuring more fu…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 319: Songs of Innocence and Experience

Episode 319

The way we live today prompts a tale of two future Hall of Famers inflicting pain on one another, yet another Hall of Famer, Phil Rizzuto, suffers pain and the host does too, and finally a story of a…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 318: A Murder in Albany and Other Tales

A minor leaguer gets involved with the wrong woman, but who does she get involved with in the aftermath? And why did the pitcher throw the inkstand?

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Published on 10 months ago

Infinite Inning 317: You Can’t Be There If You’re Already Here

Episode 317

Infinite Inning 317: You Can’t Be There If You’re Already Here The show must go on, and so we begin with Dodgers Hall of Fame manager Walt Alston, the overreach of the man he replaced, Chuck Dressen …

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning 316: Duck, You Roly-Poly Right-Hander

Episode 316

We begin once more with nice guys who finish last, but we confront the possibility that the qualifier was overstated, segue into the “Window Breakers” Giants of the late 1940s, Octavius Catto and Tom…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 315: Go to College as Stan Musial Did Not

Episode 315

An embarrassing moment for Johnny Evers as he makes the reacquaintance of a pitcher he dismissed, and a certain town in Pennsylvania suffers a man-made disaster—but which Hall of Famers family lived …

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 314: Run or Maybe Lie Down

Episode 314

Four quick tales: Leo Durocher excoriates a baserunner and gives us some quality advice, a college player dies on the field, a player is signed by the Yankees under false pretenses, and a minor leagu…

Published on 11 months ago

Infinite Inning 313: No-So-Yo Hank

Episode 313

We begin the new year with two tales of pitchers who could have used a break, one an ancient Cubbie into self-deprecation, another a war-era Cardinal in need of appreciation—from Branch Rickey.

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Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago