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This Week In Baseball History

Dec 31, 2020

To close out 2020, the strangest year in many of our lifetimes, Bill recounts the life and career of perhaps the strangest ballplayer in history, birthday boy Bill "Spaceman" Lee. Plus, happy birthday to Jim Tobin.

See you all in 2021!


Dec 23, 2020

It's the most wonderful time of the offseason, when we all scream at each other over who belongs, and especially who doesn't belong, in the Hall of Fame. To help us sort it out, we have on Jay Jaffe, of Fangraphs and The Cooperstown Casebook, and actual Hall of Fame voter! Plus, we give away some stuff and brainstorm...


Dec 16, 2020

It's often described as one of the most lopsided trades in baseball history, as the Reds sent a young Christy Mathewson to the Giants for former superstar Amos Rusie 120 years ago this week. Or did they? As Mike and Bill go through the lives of two of the greatest pitchers in early baseball history, they discover a...


Dec 10, 2020

The trade for Gary Carter, 36 years ago this week, turned out to be the final piece that turned the mid '80s Mets into a juggernaut. Mike and Bill recount the career of one of the best catchers in history, and what he brought to the Mets that made them so great, and simultaneously led to Carter's rapid decline. Plus,...


Dec 2, 2020

Jim Bunning was famously the first pitcher to win 100 games and pitch a no-hitter in each league. But the story of why he got traded to the Phillies 57 years ago this week is a classic tale of Detroit Tigers cutting off their nose to spite their face. Mike and Bill look back at Bunning's life and career and on the trade...