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This Week In Baseball History

Mar 28, 2018

In the waning days of Spring Training, 25 years ago in 1993, at the end of a long day off spent barbecuing at Tim Crews's Bass and Bridle Ranch, Cleveland pitchers Crews, Bob Ojeda, and Steve Olin decided to take a twilight cruise around the lake. It would lead to the deaths of Olin and Cruise and a career altering...


Mar 21, 2018

With all due respect to the 1899 Spiders, the worst team in baseball history was undoubtedly the one managed by Charlie Brown in Peanuts, the iconic comic strip written by Charles Schulz. And no one knows more about that team than special guest Larry Granillo (@wezen_ball), who joins Mike and Bill this week to...


Mar 14, 2018

Recent biographies have tried to rehabilitate the image of Ty Cobb, suggesting he was not the racist monster of popular imagination. But a string of violent incidents throughout his career indicate otherwise, as Mike and Bill discovered when they delved into Cobb's history to commemorate the 111th anniversary of the...


Mar 7, 2018

For more than a century, Cleveland's ballclub has called itself the Indians, supposedly to honor, Louis Sockalexis, who signed with the Cleveland Spiders 121 years ago this week to become the first Native American player in the Major Leagues. With the help of a very special guest, comedian and host of The Three Swings...