Podcast Episodes

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…

11 months, 3 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 …

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year, 1 month 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…

1 year, 1 month 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…

1 year, 1 month 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 reignite…

1 year, 1 month ago