Doing Baseball History!

We told 21 stories about lesser known people/events from baseball history in 2025! We covered topics such as; an early baseball family dynasty, probably the worst team ever, a race riot, a crazy fan, a Silver King, and a superstar prospect dying on the field… But here’s our 5 Favourites from 2025:

Thats fine. You can listen to 160 ish lesser known stories from Baseball History. About one a day until the regular season is supposed to start! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

Post baseball career got a bit out of hand

Unreal

New Episode!!! It’s World Series time and we travel back to the 1947 Fall Classic to talk about Bill Bevens short career and how he fell just short of being an immortal Yankee - pitching one of the wildest games in World Series history. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

Excuse me, he’s a what? Clearly wasn’t tuned in on the basketball offseason

October 20. A great day in Blue Jays history, in triplicate.

Great thread - also, it’s always the Buffalo Bisons

@brendelbored.bsky.social you featured Boots Poffenberger yet? His real name was actually Cletus Elwood Poffenberger, not sure which is better! One hell of a 57 game career!

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

We cover postseason stories every October! Last year Sean told Ed’s the tragic tale of Willard Hershberger and the 1940 WS Champion Cincinnati Reds podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

We couldn’t do this podcast without SABR Bio’s probably 8 outta 10 of our episodes are anchored by a SABR bio and the citations provided.

Money, lots and lots of money

🎵 one is a genius, the other’s insane 🎵

Pete Hill was born #OTD in 1882. The Baseball Hall of Famer starred for various Negro League teams in the early 1900s. Lived the latter part of his life in #Buffalo, playing semipro ball for Pete Hill’s Colored Stars & the Buffalo Red Caps. Read more here: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

102 Years Ago Today: The First Negro League World Series - Kansas City Monarchs vs. Hilldale (October 11, 1924) #OTD #Baseball #History

Some of these Latin American legends I’ve been learning about were super interesting stories. Some were just plain cool dudes. And some were under-the-radar all-time greats. Silvio García, born 113 years ago today, checked ALL the boxes. Here’s a detailed thread from last year.

so the final four are * a team that has never won the World Series in its 28 seasons * a team that has never won the World Series in its 57 seasons * a team that hasn’t won the World Series in 77 seasons * Dodgers

Old Yankees fans “It’s hard to be humble” Young Yankees fans *gestures angrily as the team turns into a pumpkin in October*

@thatbootlegguy.bsky.social next time you’re in Toronto you need to come to Hamilton’s Antique Mall!

Oh he sure beat that Ostrich, as well as many other things! He played some baseball as well… Hear all about it: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens

Sure but when a batter gets hit in the small of the back at 96.6 mph they’re told to go be a baserunner!

I just learned about Olivia Taylor. She owned the Indianapolis Clowns after her husband C.I. Taylor passed away. Fun to learn new and important things about baseball history after all these years of studying.

early reviews are in

Playoffs Baseball! We won’t cover the Babe’s called shot or Joe’s walk-off winner. On this Baseball history podcast we’d rather cover a 1947 Class-C playoff run from a bunch of wild sluggers and one man’s absolute unconscious playoff at the plate! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

“I’m familiar with the sport but not really a big fan.”

We covered this! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

Good work from the Anti-Aircraft battery to take out that bomber before it exploded the Dodgers!

More batters hit .300 in 2026 (7) than did in 1968 (6). I feel like there's a lot of people would be stunned by that. It certainly wasn't "but launch angle" back then, and it's not really now, either.

All this TV Top 100 talk and no Brockmire to be found. East Bound and Down made the cut but there is no better baseball show than Brockmire!

New Episode! An accident connects to another years later in this story about luck - or bad luck. Lidle was an unsung hero of the Moneyball A’s and an opinionated pitcher with questionable work ethic. His career would end tragically in the midst of controversy podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

September baseball baby

New Episode! This week we covered Harold Arlin, the voice of baseball’s first ever radio broadcast. Something we take for granted now-a-days was a novelty at the time. Harold himself didn’t believe in it but it would change the game forever! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

Man, high school yearbooks are getting very specific.

400 years from now: New Episode! This pitcher from the 1910’s was supposed to be the next big thing but then he got a hernia fighting a kangaroo and died from chugging heroin cough-syrup!

“He was socked in the jaw by Lou Gehrig in 1925 after making a crack to the effect that the Yankee first baseman’s mother smelled of sauerkraut. The umpire ruled that Gehrig had been provoked by unsportsmanlike means and allowed him to finish the game.”

(Hey, the fact that two teams have been sold in the last few months should tell you something about how serious owners are about breaking the union to get a cap. If they thought they were gonna win, they’d be waiting.)

Due to illness and a sore throat affecting the ability to speak clearly, we are postponing this week’s episode until next Wednesday. Lots of great stories from baseball history in our archives until then - like the time all the umpires quit (ep 98) or our episode on Ty Cobb’s mom & dad (ep 73)!

#OnThisDay in baseball history

All you need to build Back-to-Back World Series Champions is stogies and Labatt 50

Saturday mornings at the library with the kids. Found this gem by @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social

Ah damn. Doucet was basically Quebec's Vin Scully, he called Expos games from season #1 in 1969 all the way to the relocation, and then transitioned to calling Jays games in French after that. Basically invented the French glossary of baseball terminology.

Silvio García died 49 years ago today. Was he the greatest Cuban position player prior to Miñoso? It’s gotta be between Torriente, Oms, and Silvio, I’d imagine.