Nov 29, 2017
One of the most controversial changes to Major League Baseball in the last 70 years has been the introduction of interleague play to the regular season schedule. But the debate over how much contact clubs should have with the opposing league actually goes back to the first tenuous peace agreement between the AL and...
Nov 22, 2017
Obviously one of the greatest and most recognizable players in history, Joe DiMaggio was even famous before he even got to New York, after the Yankees purchased his contract 83 years ago this week from the San Francisco Seals and immediately began touting him as the heir to Babe Ruth. Mike and Bill look at DiMaggio's...
Nov 15, 2017
There has never been a player like Ichiro Suzuki in baseball history. Singular in his approach offensively and defensively, and in his amazing ability to rack up hits. It's hard to remember that, 17 years ago, when he signed with the Seattle Mariners, there was a great deal of skepticism about Ichiro and whether the...
Nov 8, 2017
With the American League set to expand for the 1977 season, 41 years ago this week, on November 5, 1976, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals conducted their expansion draft. As special guests Patrick Dubuque (@euqubud) and Navin Vaswani (@vaswani_) point out, the clubs took diametrically different...
Nov 1, 2017
Curt Flood risked everything to take on Major League Baseball's reserve clause, a fight that led him all the way to the United States Supreme Court, derailed his career, and almost chased him out of the game entirely. Then, 47 years ago this week, the Senators tried to bring him back in. Mike and Bill look at...