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This Week In Baseball History

Jul 25, 2018

In one of the stranger incidents in modern baseball history, sixty-six years ago this week, Gene Conley and Pumpsie Green walked off the Red Sox team bus in the middle of a traffic jam and disappeared into NYC. Why? And what happened to them? Mike and Bill examine this incident, as well as the lives of two of the...


Jul 18, 2018

In honor of this week's exciting Home Run Derby, Mike and Bill look back 33 years to the first Derby of the modern era, at the otherwise  hilariously disappointing 1985 All Star Game in Minneapolis, as well as the television show on which the Derby was based. Also, happy birthday to Pedro "Tony" Oliva and Harry...


Jul 11, 2018

The biggest change in baseball over the last five years has been the increase in defensive shifts employed by every franchise across the game. This week, 72 years ago, Ted Williams faced one of the first of such shifts, which were then named after him. Mike and Bill talk about the development of this innovation over the...


Jul 4, 2018

The All American Girls Professional Baseball League gave women an unprecedented chance to organize and play professional baseball. But, as special guest Britni de la Cretaz (@Britnidlc) points out, it also worked to obscure its queer players with rigid "femininity standards" and rules against fraternization. Using...