Podcast Episodes

271 - Hard Caps, Soft Caps, Salary Floors and Baseball Cards

Season 6 Episode 271

This week on the podcast - a bizarre ending to a high school football game, the soon to be expired Collective Bargaining Agreement has baseball fans …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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270 - "Second Base? That's My Best Position!" w/ Trenidad Hubbard

Season 6 Episode 270

Trenidad Hubbard played 10 Major League seasons in a 19-year professional baseball career. A Chicago native, Hubbard played college ball at Southern …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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269 - Ralph Branca: Baseball's Everyman w/ Bob Mitchell

Season 6 Episode 269

Bob Mitchell is a retired professor, award winning advertising creative and tennis teaching pro. He has published 13 books and countless essays and a…

10 months ago

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268 - Baseball & Music w/ Bill Nowlin

Season 6 Episode 268

Bill Nowlin was a co-founder of Rounder Records in the early 1960s and is a co-founder of Down the Road Records. He most recently co-edited "Native A…

10 months ago

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267 - The 1971 Astros and the Art of What If w/ Samuel Barrett

Season 6 Episode 267

Samuel Barrett is author of "Orange Crush: The Neglected 1971 Houston Astros" (Huntsville Independent Press 2025). Barrett examines the series of que…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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266 - Benny Kauff: "An Apparent Injustice Has Been Done"

Season 6 Episode 266

Ohio native Benny Kauff made his Major League debut in 1912. He jumped to the Federal League in 1914 where he emerged to stand among that circuit's b…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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265 - "They All Though I Was Crazy Anyway" w/ Scipio Spinks

Season 6 Episode 265

Scipio Spinks rose from junior college ball in Chicago to the Major Leagues with Houston and St. Louis. He pitched 5 seasons before injuries derailed…

11 months ago

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264 - Texans in the Hall: Joe Morgan

Season 6 Episode 264

Joe Morgan, a native of Bonham, Texas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, is generally regarded as baseball's greatest second basemen in the post…

11 months, 1 week ago

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263 - The Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Gambling Scandal of 1926 w/ Dan Taylor

Season 6 Episode 263

The fallout from the 1919 World Series gambling scandal rocked the baseball world when the affair broke into the public's view late in the 1920 seaso…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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262 - Rube and Bill Foster: Texans in the Hall

Season 6 Episode 262

Andrew "Rube" and William "Bill" Foster were half-brothers born in Calvert, Texas, 25 years apart. Rube (b. 1879) left home in the late 90s to pitch …

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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