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Congratulations to the newest Hall of Famer, Jeff Kent. Fun fact (?): The Tracker was a thing for all 10 years of Jeff Kent's run on the BBWAA ballot. He received a total of 998 votes over that decade from the writers and the Tracker was able to log 774 of those as public votes (77.6%). Fun!

Today we celebrate our co-host Sean's birthday with a snapshot from Ocean Beach Pier in San Diego on our California baseball trip back in 2018. Listen to a few episodes of baseball history today in his honour!

Looks like the only one of these inductees who had been previously honored in the various Latin American-based Halls of Fame is Carmelo Martínez. He was inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004. In 35 CARS games, he hit 10 HR, batted .277, and slugged .589. He was MVP in 1987.

We just covered the White Brothers in our latest episode! James was the HOF’er but Will’s career was sneaky amazing - if multiple 40 win seasons can be sneaky.

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The Romo Brothers (Vicente & Enrique). Vibes for days.

141 The White Brothers Podcast Episode · Sean and Eds Do Baseball · 2025-11-26 · 52m

Thanksgiving is about family! Our latest episode was about the White Brothers, James (Deacon) and Will!

Baseball stars of the 1870’s that left a long legacy in the game including being the first sibling battery!

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Aw man, RIP George Altman. After appearing with the 1955 Kansas City Monarchs, he finally made the majors in 1959 with the Cubs. He was an All-Star in 1961 (.303, 27 HR, 96 RBI) and 1962 (.318, 22 HR, 74 RBI, 19 SB). He hit 101 homers in a 9-year career. He was 92 years old.

I know I told this story on the other site, but I worked for an indy league baseball team in Lynn, MA during the summer of 1997. Midway through the season, we signed Oil Can to a contract.

Ever thought about turning your expertise into a bestselling book? Maybe a book about the riveting story of four men―Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige? Ever thought about that Luke? No? I can help!

Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City

Just saw about 10 vehicles in a row with flags on the Gardiner! So I’m assuming so

That contract did not work out exactly!

We covered Pascual’s colourful career back in September!

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#OnThisDay in baseball history

Big shoutout to @ripmlb.bsky.social and @jeffpearlman.bsky.social whose articles helped anchor this! Also SABR of course!

140 Rogelio "Roger" Moret

New Episode out now!

Rogelio Moret, a can’t miss prospect out of Puerto Rico who made his debut at just 20. His issues off the field and MLB’s inability to help him culminated in a notorious moment in 1978!

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I normally don't really care about year end awards, but Schneider definitely deserved it.

122 Jack Lohrke Podcast Episode · Sean and Eds Do Baseball · 2025-01-22 · 44m

We’ve covered a lot of veterans, but Jack Lohrke survived the Pacific Theatre in WW2 and then luckily survived his baseball career. If you don’t know his story, it’s a must listen!

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A great turnout for our SABR Hanlan's Point Chapter autumn meeting at Duke of York in Toronto, with special guest Steve Paikin. We had an engaging conversation about the Blue Jays, Red Sox, and stadiums. Honouring baseball history while looking ahead to the future.

Wish we were there but our Agenda (lol) was full, little kids and recording a new episode tonight! Hi Bill Humber!

MIKE VACCARO: I was covering a Nets playoff series in Milwaukee. Gallo asked me to stay in Milwaukee and cover the Mets series that weekend. It was May and the Mets were already falling apart. I wrote a column on general manager Steve Phillips. He’d assembled a team of profoundly unlikable players, I would not write this now, but I wrote then that Mets fans aren’t just mad, they want Steve Phillips’s head on a pike and they want to put that pike on the Triborough Bridge. Back then, I’m surprised they didn’t put a cartoon of Phillips’s bloody head on a pike on the back page. That Saturday I reported to the ballpark in Milwaukee and Jay Horwitz, the PR director, said, “We might have a problem with Steve. He’s gonna want to see you when you’re in the clubhouse.” I said, “That’s fine.” In those situations, I’m not looking for a fight. If you’re going to rip them, you got to let them rip you back. Steve brings me into this empty office. He purposely kept the door open. He wanted the players to hear him air me out. He aired me out, and I took it. Then he went a bit farther than he should have. He said, “You made my wife cry. That’s the worst part.” Now, the backstory is that Steve Phillips was a serial adulterer. That had already been in the paper. He’d been suspended by the Mets because he just couldn’t stay faithful to his wife for, like, more than ten minutes at a time. I said, “You know what, Steve? I’m not the only one in this room that has done that, am I?” As soon as I said it, here comes Steve Phillips, about ready to punch me in the jaw. Jay got in the middle and he dragged Steve out of there. I walked out, and I’m a little shaky, because you don’t like it when somebody yells at you for five minutes straight, and Tom Glavine, Al Leiter, and a bunch of guys came over and said, “That was awesome.” Phillips got fired about three weeks later.

I'm reading Paper of Wreckage, an oral history of the New York Post, and came across Mike Vaccaro reminiscing about the time in 2003 when he brutally zinged then Mets GM Steve Phillips.

The aching, aching arms Life, for Robert Lee Turley (see cover), has been one continuous hurrah ever since he pitched the New York Yankees to victory in the seventh game of the World

The whole article can be found in Sports Illustrated...in 1959.

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He’s talking about tours. Literally bragging about how much the tours bring in year-round.

Yet the Dodgers are refusing to pay a living wage and engaging in union busting.

I think it's really brutal to try to rank Game 7s. Better to group them.

1925 is its own class

This one goes with 1924, 1960, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2016, and I suppose 1975.

They're all amazing (hopefully not missing one - list was off top of mind)

Relatable

YouTube video by MLB 1972 WS Gm3: Fingers fakes free pass, fans Bench

YES! Like, this is the stuff that Manfred took away from us.

(and yes this happened in the WS! Imagine someone using this tactic Vlad Jr. or Ohtani instead of the automatic IBB!)

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Only 4 pitchers have recorded a Pitcher’s Cycle — striking out every batter in the opposing lineup — in the World Series:

Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5
Randy Johnson, 2001 G2
Bob Gibson, 1968 G1
Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6

139 Hitless Wonders - The 1906 White Sox Podcast Episode · Sean and Eds Do Baseball · 2025-10-29 · 53m

New Episode!

The 1906 featured a surprise contender and a solidified juggernaut- sound familiar? Ed’s looked into the 1906 World Series and the White Sox team no one expected to have a chance.

Frank Isbell’s 4 XBH record would not be broken until Monday night!

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Makes me wanna crash through the window

He is an overlooked Hall of Very Good player, his OBP was wild but also his SB% eliminated some of those gains lol