Podcast Episodes

Infinite Inning 312: A Christman Story for a Christmas Mini-Sode

Episode 312

A half-length Casey Stengel-centric episode as we all get ready for the big holiday with all its joy and peppermint bark. Includes way too much about pinch-hitting during the Truman administration, i…

Published on 1 year ago

Infinite Inning 311: Paradise By the Des Moines Lights

We begin with a brief threnody on those who would say ballplayers are overpaid, spanning Babe Ruth to Juan Soto and the arbitrary nature of those ‘plaints. We then head into the darkness for the thwa…

Published on 1 year ago

Infinite Inning 310: The Aunt[Censored]

Episode 310

A manager fails to comfort a nervous rookie pitcher and an outfielder of ancient days ends his career when he overreacts to an unusual family-oriented insult.

Trigger Warning: This episode contains o…

Published on 1 year ago

Infinite Inning 309: The Anti-Ohtani and Other Cautionary Tales of Thanksgiving

Episode 309

On the road to grandmother’s house, we ask whether a 19th-century game purported to be the greatest of all time was any fun, stopping along the way to admire the marital problems of a star second bas…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Infinite Inning 308: Here Comes a Sparrow

Episode 308

By listener request, the story of Casey Stengel and the sparrow, but first, a pitcher is mercilessly mocked for his pickoff move and a second baseman is disabled by a piece of chewing gum.

The Infini…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Infinite Inning 307: The Tornado Yet to Come

Episode 307

Two players are cursed with high expectations and both have their moments, but one becomes best known for sitting down and the other finds you can’t succeed if your best tool is a razor blade. Then w…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Infinite Inning 306: The Pitcher Who Refused to Go Home

Episode 306

After the week we’ve had, we’re all once again in the Infinite Inning, but is there a way out? Follow along the winding path as a Yankees ace puts his head through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, …

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Infinite Inning 305: Herbs from Beneath the Gallows

Episode 305

An election-eve episode that begins with two notable World Series gaffes and the players who weren’t blamed and those who were, and what that says about us as a society. We then turn to contingency a…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Infinite Inning 304: Bad, Ruthless Men LIVE

Episode 304

First, some brief thoughts on the passing of the great Fernando Valenzuela and Fernandomania as a contrast to the great upheavals of 1200 BC. Then join Steve at the Morristown Festival of Books for a…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Infinite Inning 303: The Chain of Baseball

Episode 303

This week, stories of fathers, sons, and brothers playing baseball, one an ancestor of the current Yankees manager who witnessed a strange Phil Rizzuto baserunning blunder, and three brothers who ran…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago