Afleveringen
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The boys return to the battery after a short break with the life story of yet another fellow country man; this time it's Phil Marchildon. In the spirit of Remembrance / Veteran's Day Eds toes the rubber and tells Sean about Phil's humble beginnings on the shores of Georgian Bay, his late start into baseball and his heroic venture to war, where he became a POW and suffered the effects that further curtailed a promising baseball career.
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As the MLB season comes to a close and Sean spends time off with a growing family; the boys revisit an old episode from October of 2020 in which Eds tells Sean, and friend of the show Jean Poincelet about a wild offseason almost 50 years ago that nearly brought a struggling west coast franchise back across the continent and north of the border.This is the story of a volatile era in baseball where expansion was quickly changing the landscape of Major League Baseball, and how one man's renegade actions started a chain of events that would ultimately bring to fruition the dream of another man north of the 49th parallel.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Sean goes from the windup to tell Eds the wild story of the first official World Series in 1903; as well as the legendary group of fans that helped turn the series in Boston's favour. 101 years later the song they sang would gain new life and Boston would once again win it all in October!
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Eds throws a knuckler and continues an October tradition with a story from the MLB postseason, but he also continues a Sean and Eds Do Baseball tradition with a story of the Mets. The Miracle Mets; the key cast members that made them and all the reasons that nickname was so apt. They weren't expected to do much of anything but a perfect chain of events helped the Mets go from mediocrity to might for one miraculous season.
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Sean throws a quality start with the story of baseball writer and journalist Melissa Ludtke. Her love of baseball lead her to write for Sports Illustrated but a confrontation with Bowie Kuhn during the 1977 World Series changed baseball for the better and set a precedent for women reporters everywhere.
https://www.melissaludtke.com/locker-room-talk
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In honour of Eds' vacation to Cooperstown we are re-running our early episode on The Savannah Bananas before they blew up to the point of having their own pop up display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sean digs into the relatively young story of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate wood bat league with some colourful characters throughout its short history.
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Sean stands atop the hill and delivers a spitball with the short wild life and career of Arthur "Bugs" Raymond. One of the premier spitballers of his day Raymond's NY Giants Manager John McGraw would do all he could to keep his star pitcher sober but to no avail.
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Eds steps to the rubber with a fastball. The story of Guelph, Ontario's own William "Bunk" Congalton; who found his way into his local Sports Hall of Fame after a career gardening for a laundry list of colourfully named clubs, all before his untimely death at the Indians game, at the age of 62 or 59.
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Sean winds up with a fastball to tell the story of hard throwing pitcher Moses Yellowhorse. From the Pawnee Nation; Yellowhorse's arm caught the attention of baseball's elite and brought him to the big leagues at a young age. Despite a strong arm and cheers from the Pittsburgh faithful dedicated specifically to young Moses, his career would be very short but very eventful.
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Eds heads to the mound with a short outing; telling the story of fellow countryman, The Only Nolan. Born Edward Sylvester Nolan, in Trenton, Canada, Nolan gained what turned out to be one of the most ironic nicknames in baseball history. He stumbled into the major leagues and wouldn't stay long as he could never stray far from controversy.
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Sean twirls a strong outing with the story of Stanley "Frenchy" Bordagaray - who was Basque! Bordagaray made headlines; mostly off the field with his goofy antics and stunts which created some major consternation for his manager Casey Stengel.
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Eds hits the corner with a heater as he blazes through the life story of Hall of Fame Phillie and Broadcasting Legend Don Richie Whitey Ashburn. A story inspired by one fateful afternoon of "Putt-Putt's" career that surely beat the odds.
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Sean goes up and in with the story of Joe Sprinz and his attempted record setting catch that on his birthday no less, ended in disaster at the San Francisco World's Fair!
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Eds throws a curveball in a fastball count and brings an old player back onto the roster with a more in depth covering of the life of Randy Bass; the NPB's first American superstar, who due to some poor foresight by his club was railroaded out of town in the most despicable of circumstances. Listen to how those circumstances left a sour taste in the mouth of the Tigers legend and how they created an awful dilemma for the Hanshin GM.
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Sean winds up for back to back starts with the tale of two friends brought together by baseball and connected forever by one tragic day on the diamond.
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Sean throws a strike with the story of James "Pud" Galvin; a small but mighty pitcher and MLB's first 300 game winner. Galvin's career would be overshadowed by other stars of the 1880's but a revelation from the early 2000's would embroil him in a modern scandal.
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Eds returns to the mound with the story of Benny Meyer, a man that Babe Ruth called “the noisiest coacher in either league," who as a young man was given an ultimatum by his father that set him on a path toward a life of baseball.
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Sean's on the bump with the story of Wild Bill Hagy. One of the original Superfans who led a section of rowdy fans in the bleachers of Baltimore in the late 1970's. Wild Bill's cheers and dancing made him famous before a falling out with the team led to his arrest. His story even inspired an early episode of the Simpsons.
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Eds throws a curveball on his way out of town and tells Sean the story of how a veteran ballplayer in the twilight of his career inadvertently started an underground competition by consuming an ungodly number of Philadelphia Cheesesteak sandwiches while riding the bench one weekend; and how since that day a few MLB personnel have gone to great lengths to claim the crown for themselves.
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Sean brings some heat with the story of Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd and his journey through the big leagues and beyond. Known for being a polarizing figure we dig into the racism and horrific experiences that made The Can who he is!
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