Episodes

  • Yankee Wife Swap

    Yankee Wife Swap
    Jul 31 2024
    Chrystal and Colleen go back to 1973, when Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich announced a one-of-a-kind trade in baseball history: their wives. Unlike the deals at the trade deadline, no advanced analytics are necessary to figure out whether Susanne or Marilyn wound up with the better deal.

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    51 mins
  • The Big Red Menace

    The Big Red Menace
    Jul 22 2024
    Colleen and Chrystal look back at Marge Schott, who made history by becoming the first woman to buy a major league team (Joan Whitney Payson inherited the Mets), then made more history by being an absolute scoundrel, and costing herself control of the team. Infamous enough for smoking that she appeared with a cigarette on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and for her dog who loved pooping on the field at Riverfront Stadium, her true vice – and the source of her downfall – was racism. Schott’s praise for Hitler and use of the N-word are why her legacy remains toxic today, making her the benchmark for terrible sports owners.

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    1 hr
  • Senior Professional Baseball Association

    Senior Professional Baseball Association
    Jul 8 2024
    Chrystal and Colleen bring you tales of the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association, the "Boys of Winter" who played in Florida from 1989-90 with such teams as the Orlando Juice, Bradenton Explorers, and Fort Myers Sun Sox. The even had a baseball card set, but the league for pros over the age of 35 (and slightly younger catchers) didn't catch on. It was a fun idea, so why didn't it catch on? Well, that's why we're here...

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    31 mins
  • Black Cats, Goats, and Announcers

    Black Cats, Goats, and Announcers
    Jul 1 2024
    Colleen and Chrystal dive into the trials and tribulations of the Chicago Cubs, from the collapse of 1969 after a black cat ran on the field at Shea Stadium, to the 1945 billy goat incident, to the foul ball in 2003 that changed one man's life, "helped" along by national broadcasters playing into the decades of Cubs failure lore that only dissipated thanks to a freak rainstorm in Cleveland in 2016.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Baseball Pride

    Baseball Pride
    Jun 24 2024
    Happy Pride! Chrystal and Colleen bring you the queer side of baseball history, with plenty of stories and more to check out once you listen: catch the trailer for A Secret Love, learn about The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, read Outsports, watch The TJ House story, and always, always, always stay Proud To Be In Baseball!

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Ten Cent Beer Night

    Ten Cent Beer Night
    Jun 17 2024
    Fifty years ago this month, Cleveland had a promotion that simply couldn't fail, until it did, spectacularly and utterly predictably. The result of Ten Cent Beer Night was a victory for the Texas Rangers, and only for the Texas Rangers, as it was one of five Major League Baseball games to be forfeited in the expansion era, and half a century later, brings Colleen and Chrystal back together after their spring vacations.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Candlestick Park

    Candlestick Park
    May 6 2024
    Casual Diehard 59

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    39 mins
  • The Catcher Was A Spy

    The Catcher Was A Spy
    Apr 29 2024

    Chrystal and Colleen bring you the tale of Moe Berg, and plenty of source material to dive into after hearing them tell it...


    Books:

    “The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg” - Nicholas Dawidoff

    “The Bastards Brigade” - Sam Kean


    Articles:

    Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher, and an Enigma (NYT)

    Moe Berg: Catcher and Spy (ESPN)

    Moe Berg, Class of 1923: Baseball Player, World War II Spy (Princeton University)

    The Baseball Player Turned Spy Who Went Undercover To Assassinate The Nazis' Top Nuclear Scientist (Smithsonian)

    Moe Berg's Life In Baseball (Baseball Hall of Fame)


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    1 hr and 20 mins