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This Week In Baseball History

Jul 29, 2020

In perhaps the weirdest, least likely game ever, the Mets, thirty-five years ago this week, beat the Astros 16-4. All 16 of their runs, however, were unearned. Quite simply, the odds of that were astronomical, so Mike and Bill needed to ask Sports Info Solutions's senior analyst Mark Simon (@MarkSimonSays) all about it,...


Jul 23, 2020

Luke Appling was one of the best old players in baseball history. But nobody truly knew how good an old player could be until 38 years ago this week, when Appling hit his final home run, at the age of 75. Mike and Bill look at the career of the underrated all time great, and special guest Michael Clair (@michaelsclair)...


Jul 17, 2020

Once again, we had a great time on our monthly Zoom hangout with our Patreon subscribers and had a couple special guests in Baseball Prospectus and The Infinite Inning's Steven Goldman (@goStevenGoldman) and MLB.com's Michael Clair (@michaelsclair).

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Jul 15, 2020

Any time a pair of 300 game winners faces one another in a game, it's a big deal. Anytime, that is, except the first time, which took place 130 years ago this week when Pud Galvin and Tim Keefe took the mound in anger. Mike and Bill look back at the colorful history of the pair, including the recent PED allegations...


Jul 9, 2020

Arky Vaughan was one of the most underappreciated superstars in history until his reputation was restored by Bill James. Vaughan's disappearance has always been linked with an attempted players' strike with the Dodgers in 1943 that occurred 77 years ago this week. But that's not the whole story, as Mike and Bill...