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Infinite Inning 379: Requiem for a Reds Pitcher
Trigger Warning: Discussions of self-harm. A Reds pitcher confuses the end of his arm for the end of his life, several other players take the easy way out, a bizarre trade is deconstructed, the…
Infinite Inning 378: Casey, the Muscle or the Bone
A shorter episode about bad timing as exemplified by the time that Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel was run over by a car. The Infinite Inning is a journey to the past to understand the present…
Infinite Inning 377: The Negro Leagues were a Ceiling
A shorter episode that takes a quick look at the Homestead Grays and the attenuated career of the late Bob Horner. The Infinite Inning is a journey to the past to understand the present using…
Infinite Inning 376: A Dog's Breakfast with the Yankees, Mets, and Shanty
A grab-bag episode in which the title says it all: The 40th anniversary of the 1986 Mets, how failed Yankees shortstop Bobby Meacham would have performed if Baseball-Reference had his name correctly,…
Infinite Inning 375: The A's, Murder in Camden, and the Spiders from Cleveland
Infinite Inning 375: The A's, Murder in Camden, and the Spiders from Cleveland Several attempts at finding empathy through self-denial this week: We ask if it’s right to laugh at the players trapped…
Infinite Inning 374: The 100th Anniversary of the 1927 Yankees One Year Early
We go back to the early days of the Angels (California, Los Angels, Anaheim, or anywhere in-between) for the untimely death of a pitcher, then look forward to next year, when one of the most famous…
Infinite Inning 373: Baseball and Helen's Missing Cup
Two managers dropped this week, but four teams haven’t fired a manager in-season since the last century. Which were they, and is there even a point? Then we travel back to 1887, the ill-fated…
Infinite Inning 372: The Yankees' Owner’s Mistress and the Bomb
A major metropolitan newspaper contends a pitcher “blows,” while he insists he is in “the best shape of his life.” Which would prove to be closer to the truth? Then we revisit the birth of the atomic…
Infinite Inning 371: One of the Jackie Robinson Generation Weak Arm and All
We note the recent passing of some stalwart ballplayers, some of all too recent a vintage, then travel back to the 1950s and the breaking of the Braves color line by an outfielder who everyone liked…
Infinite Inning 370: The Ballplayer's Lost Bones
In which we track the posthumous career of one of baseball’s earliest players, who might simultaneously lie in three different places or maybe nowhere at all. Then we wish Parker Meadows a quick…
Infinite Inning 369: An Odd Cardinals Walk-Off or a Typical Cubs Loss?
Infinite Inning 369: An Odd Cardinals Walk-Off or a Typical Cubs Loss?First we ask an evergreen question prompted by Konnor Griffin’s promotion: Were Casey Stengel’s expectations of Mickey Mantle…
Infinite Inning 368: Baseball, War, and the Day the $100,000 Infield Buried a Child
Two players who might have made the Hall of Fame if not for time missed to national service during World War II stand in for all of those whose trajectories were deflected by the games played by…
Infinite Inning 367: Baseball, the Yankees, and Bitterness
In which we talk about some of our own broken relationships, the war of Billy Martin’s ear and what George Steinbrenner’s plan to bring him back for a sixth tour says about his own morality, the way…
Infinite Inning 366: The Yankee Who Went to Sea (The Wife Sent Him)
A pitcher named Bob becomes Sailor Bob all because his wife wanted him out of the house in a fatal way, then we revisit the 1880s and a truly ridiculous ballpark that led to a player having both an…
Infinite Inning 365: When the Yankees Tried to Be the Cardinals
How the King of France once had an illicit love life that bore both a great resemblance to that of some of our current villains, but was also kind of similar to one of Branch Rickey’s greatest…
Infinite Inning 364: The Pitcher Who Didn’t Duck and the Artist Who Was a Hypocrite
This week, a light-hearted tale of a pitcher who braved the injury nexus in a body that just refused to flinch when under hostile fire, preceded by the story of a favorite cartoonist who pontificated…
Infinite Inning 363: The Shortstop Sets Us Free
A player who is remembered as “Jumbo” even though that was neither his name or his shape is described in both complimentary and critical terms, oysters are considered, and one of the greatest…
Infinite Inning 362: The Cardinals-Giants 1935 Ethiopia Incident
A future Hall of Fame outfielder gets into a tiff with the first Hall of Fame umpire and the umpire says a rude word, but how rude was it? Then we briefly consider the worst 900-plus games careers…
Infinite Inning 361: Pitching for Our Lives
A rare three-segment episode this week. First, in what is very much NOT a story, the host quotes Casey Stengel in a totally context-free way. Then a pitcher has to work hard to keep a team he doesn’t…
Infinite Inning 360: Ballgame Called for Yellow Jack
An episode in which yesterday’s headlines are today’s. First, we find not William Bell the Negro Leagues great, but William Bell the victim of a false accusation in 1920s Chicago, the only murder of…
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