The story of how one base running mistake in September of 1908 to a bizarre chain of events that changed baseball forever.

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Take Nothing For Granted

When a plane carrying 11 members of the VVS Moscow Hockey Club crashed, everyone on board died. Then came the cover up...

42 Red

The backstory of how a folksy, quick witted, singing politician from rural Kentucky helped integrate professional baseball

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As Baseball stadiums go, The Metrodome was quirky as they come. But did The Minnesota Twins manipulate the conditions to their advantage?

Home Field Advantage

To the average baseball fan Mel Hall was a mediocre ballplayer with an outsized ego. To his victims, he was sexual predator and destructive figure.

Hall of Shame

In 1900, more than a century before The Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox got in trouble for electronically stealing signs, a man named Pearce Chiles orchestrated a complex scheme to steal signs from opposing teams. Also, he went to jail for another thing he did THEN busted out and tried to play baseball again. Classic stuff. Bob LeMoine from The Society For American Baseball Research also helped out with this episode.

What's The Use?

As one of baseball's most prolific alcoholics, Ray "Slim" Caldwell was also a low-key talented player. But the right-handed pitcher is perhaps best known for the bizarre events of August 24, 1919.

The Guy Called Slim

This episode is an abbreviated and by no means an all inclusive history of The Oakland Raiders

The Autumn Wind

Before he was the high kicking, heavy drinking, prolific song writing front man of Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard was a star athlete who once threw a no hitter at Wright State.

The Club is Open

Scoring 100 points in a basketball game seems impossible. But there's a formula that can help a player do just that

The System

When Bob Short decided to move the Washington Senators from D.C to Texas...fans didn't take it particularly well

Bob Short Stinks

Bill Lee, or "Spaceman" as he was known, was an oddball for sure. He was also pretty good at baseball. This episode is all about him

Spaceman

Some promotions in sports work. Some don't. Here's a story about one that didn't. Also, be sure to check out The ConspiraTea Podcast I mentioned at the beginning. Listen on Spotify Also check out my website at http://smallleaguestu.com/

10 Cent Beer Night

At the time of this publishing, MLB has recognized 300 no hitters. 23 of those are perfect games. Only one of those (that we know of) was thrown by a person on LSD

On Acid

A podcast that explores the strange, the zany, the funny, and sometimes, the criminal elements from the world of sports. And sometimes other things

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