This Week In Baseball History

Not yet. He's a tricky subject because he was very clearly a troubled man and so many of the stories about him paint him as an object of ridicule. Also, it's hard to nail down dates of what occurred when. He's on the short list for sure, but any episode we'd do would not be to point and laugh at him

This Week In Baseball History: Episode 376 - The Mets Get Caught At Cooter's (with special guest David Roth) The 1986 Mets are one of the truly iconic teams in baseball history, with a roster full of unbelievable talent, unbridled machismo, and borderline criminal tendencies. And 39 years ago, several of the...

Episode 376 - The Mets Get Caught At Cooter's (Executive Games and Burgers) with special guest David Roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social).

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This Week In Baseball History: Episode 375 - The New 4,000 Hit Club (with Adam Darowski) For so long, we've thought that the 4,000 hit club was one of the most exclusive in baseball history, with just two members. But on the 98th anniversary of Ty Cobb's 4,000th hit, Mike and Bill are joi...

Episode 375 - The New 400 Hit Club (with @adarowski.bsky.social)

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This Week In Baseball History: Episode 371 - Lou Gehrig, Early Streaker When we think of Lou Gehrig, we usually think about one of two things: his tragic early death or his record breaking consecutive games played streak, which began this week 100 years ago. This week, we...

Episode 371 - Lou Gehrig, Early Streaker
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Seems likely, but I don't know how we'd even go about figuring this out definitively.

This Week In Baseball History: Episode 369 - The Kerry Wood Game Sometimes it takes a while for a prospect to reach his full potential. Sometimes, all it takes is five starts. That's what happened with Kerry Wood, who not only pitched the game of his life 27 years ...

Episode 369 - The Kerry Wood Game
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This Week In Baseball History: Episode 367 - Talking Talking To Sadaharu Oh (with special guest Michael Clair) Every great story begins somewhere, and the world home run king's journey to 868 career home runs began 66 years ago this week, when Sadaharu Oh hit his first career home run. To celebrate that, and t...

Episode 367 - Talking Talking To Sadaharu Oh (with special guest (@michaelclair.bsky.social).
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This Week In Baseball History: Episode 366 - Smith Realee Smashes the Saves Record Between the generations of three inning late game relievers like Rollie Fingers and Goose Gossage and the one inning high leverage relievers like Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman, there was Lee Smith...

Episode 366 - Smith Realee Smashes the Saves Record
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We haven't done an episode on Speaker yet, and he's definitely one of the higher profile HOFers we've yet to focus on for an episode, so I imagine his turn is coming up soon.

Whose the more deserving HOFer? Chuck Klein or last week's subject, Harry Hooper?

Oh wow. God, I remember seeing Eric Hosmer on a back field at Royals camp when he was still at AA and the guy hit the longest ball I've ever seen, but hit it foul. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

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who was definitely racist and definitely an ass, but the degrees to which he was both are in dispute. The hard part about it is then we have to really dig into someone for a week who's going to really bum us out. So we try to space those eps out.

This Week In Baseball History This Week In Baseball History is a weekly podcast devoted to the history of baseball, hosted by Mike Bates and Bill Parker, the co-founders of The Platoon Advantage and writers on many fine websites.

Absolutely. It was a long time ago, but we have an ep on the Ben Chapman/Phillies game. thisweekinbaseballhistory.libsyn.com/episode-46-j...

We have talked about people like that tangentially on the show often, and sometimes done a deep dive into someone like Cobb,

This Week In Baseball History: Episode 363 - Chucking Klein Into Cooperstown The parade of questionable Hall of Fame outfielders continue, as Mike and Bill celebrate Chuck Klein being elected to Cooperstown by the Veterans Committee 45 years ago this week. Klein put together s...

Episode 353 - Chucking Klein Into Cooperstown

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This Week In Baseball History: Episode 359 - The Rise and Fall of the Senior Professional Baseball Association After threatening for years, Mike and Bill finally get around to the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Assocation to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the league's only championship. How did th...

Episode 389 - The Rise and Fall of the Senior Professional Baseball Association

This Week In Baseball History: Episode 351 - The Red Sox Peel Rice Off When he was elected to the Hall of Fame, he was touted as the most feared hitter of his era. But by the time the Red Sox released him 35 years ago, Rice was looking old before his time, hobbled from v...

Episode 351 - The Red Sox Peel Rice Off
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This Week In Baseball History: Episode 350 - The American League Tries to Ban Johnson Prior to Babe Ruth and Judge Landis, perhaps no person was as synonymous with baseball as Ban Johnson, the visionary who founded the American League, outfought the National League, and ran the Nationa...

Episode 350 - The American League Tries to Ban Johnson
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Episode 304 - Ya Gotta Believe!

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Episode 303 - Juan Bad Day

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Episode 302 - We Give Up

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Episode 301 - Two Bad Big Apples (with special guest Chris Donnelly)

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Episode 300 - SABR Pirate Radio with Mike Veeck

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