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PODCAST

This Week In Baseball History

Mike Bates and Bill Parker

This Week In Baseball History is a weekly podcast devoted to the history of baseball, hosted by Mike Bates and Bill Parker, the co-founders of The Platoon Advantage and writers on many fine websites.

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Episode 11 - Mashi Murakami Mania! (with special...

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/08/16

Major League Baseball, like America, is at its best when it's diverse and reflective of the countries that play the game. So this week, 52 years after the anniversary of Masahiro Murakami Day at Candlestick Park, Mike and Bill, along with special guest and Murakami biographer Rob Fitts (robfitts.com), remember the first player of Japanese descent to play in the Big Leagues. Mashi's career took him from Japan to Phoenix to Fresno and San Francisco before finally returning to Japan in 1966. Along the

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Episode 10 - Mark McGwire Destroys the Rookie HR Record

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/08/09

Mike and Bill delve into some recent history, Mark McGwire's assault on the rookie record book in 1987. This week, 30 years ago, McGwire hit his 38th of 49 homers, breaking the AL record and tying the MLB mark. They discuss McGwire's prolific amateur career, his incredible 1987, the context in which he hit those home runs, and the likelihood of one or more rookies (Aaron Judge or Cody Bellinger) breaking the record again.

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52:33

Episode 9 - The Final Flight of Thurman Munson (with...

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/08/02

Mike and Bill dig into the life and career of one of the great Yankee captains, Thurman Munson, who died 38 years ago this week on August 2, 1979. Also, Sports Illustrated's Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) joins the podcast in a special interview to discuss his new book, The Cooperstown Casebook, whether Munson belongs in the Hall of Fame, and what his chances of making it are after so many years.

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Episode 8 - The Infamous Pine Tar Game

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/07/26

Mike and Bill delve into a ridiculous moment in baseball history when, 34 years ago this week, George Brett homered off Goose Gossage, only to get called out for having too much pine tar on his bat. How could he have let this happen? What happened after the famous video where George Brett nearly murders Tim McClelland? And why can't Mike stop giggling at what was, ultimately, a deeply silly controversy?

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Episode 7 - The Black Sox Go To Trial (with Jacob...

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/07/19

Mike and Bill interview special guest Jacob Pomrenke (@buckweaver), SABR's Director of Editorial Content and Editor of Scandal on the South Side about the 1919 Chicago White Sox, their successful attempt to throw the World Series, and the trial that followed 96 years ago this week. Along the way they discover that a lifetime ban can't keep a good ballplayer off the field for long and correct some longstanding myths about the Black Sox.

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Episode 6 - Ray Fosse Meets Pete Rose

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/07/12

It's the All Star Game Edition of TWIBH, so Mike and Bill look at what's perhaps the most famous play in ASG history, the collision at home between Ray Fosse and Pete Rose. Was Rose's baserunning dirty? Was Fosse's career ruined? And if not, what happened to one of the most dynamic young catchers in baseball, who was an All Star in his first full season?

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Episode 5 - Monte Irvin, Invisible Giant

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/07/05

Live from the annual convention of the Society of American Baseball Research, Mike and Bill discuss pioneering Hall of Famer, Negro Leagues superstar, and New York Giants outfielder Monte Irvin. Why are writers and historians stymied by his career and ignore him? How come fans today just don't know much about one of the best players of the 1940s and 1950s?

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Episode 4 - The Mysterious Death of Ed Delahanty

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/06/28

This week, 114 years ago, Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty played his last game and went missing from the Washington Senators while on a road trip. Soon after, he would turn up dead in the Niagara River. What happened to Big Ed that led him to ruin? Where did he go and how did he die? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or did baseball's best hitter fall victim to murder most foul? Mike and Bill look into what led up to Delahanty's disappearance and try to figure out what exactly happened on that July night on a

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Episode 3 - Charlie Finley's War (with Mark Armour)

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/06/21

Mike and Bill welcome author and historian Mark Armour (@MarkArmour04) to discuss maverick Athletics owner Charlie Finley and how, this week in 1976, Finley was thwarted in his attempt to sell his stars to the Yankees and Red Sox. Mark's latest book is "In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations From Deadball to Moneyball"(http://www.pursuitofpennants.com/). Follow the podcast on Twitter at @TWIBHistory.

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Episode 2 - Tom Seaver, the Mets, and the Midnight...

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/06/15

This week is the 40th anniversary of the infamous Midnight Massacre, where the Mets traded stars Tom Seaver and Dave Kingman, and journeyman Mike Phillips in the span of a few hours in three different trades. Mike and Bill look at Seaver's illustrious career, what led up to the breakup between Seaver and the Mets, and what happened after that to the Mets and to his new club, the Cincinnati Reds.

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Episode 1 - The Amateur Draft

This Week In Baseball History ·

2017/06/09

Mike and Bill look at the Amateur (or Rule 4) Draft in baseball, and its origins, changes and effects through the history of baseball.

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