Baseball from Casual Diehard

By Casual Diehard

Episodes from the Casual Diehard podcast, but just the baseball ones!

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July 22, 2024 Dugout of History 11: The Big Red Menace
Colleen and Chrystal look back at Marge Schott, who made history by becoming the first woman to buy a major league team (Joan Whitney Payson inherited the Mets), then made more history by being an absolute scoundrel, and costing herself control of the team. Infamous enough for smoking that she appeared with a cigarette on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and for her dog who loved pooping on the field at Riverfront Stadium, her true vice – and the source of her downfall – was racism. Schott’s praise for Hitler and use of the N-word are why her legacy remains toxic today, making her the benchmark for terrible sports owners.
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1h 1min
July 08, 2024 Dugout of History 10: Senior Professional Baseball Association
Chrystal and Colleen bring you tales of the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association, the "Boys of Winter" who played in Florida from 1989-90 with such teams as the Orlando Juice, Bradenton Explorers, and Fort Myers Sun Sox. The even had a baseball card set, but the league for pros over the age of 35 (and slightly younger catchers) didn't catch on. It was a fun idea, so why didn't it catch on? Well, that's why we're here...
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32min
July 01, 2024 Dugout of History 9: Black Cats, Goats, and Announcers
Colleen and Chrystal dive into the trials and tribulations of the Chicago Cubs, from the collapse of 1969 after a black cat ran on the field at Shea Stadium, to the 1945 billy goat incident, to the foul ball in 2003 that changed one man's life, "helped" along by national broadcasters playing into the decades of Cubs failure lore that only dissipated thanks to a freak rainstorm in Cleveland in 2016.
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1h 4min
June 24, 2024 Dugout of History 8: Baseball Pride
Happy Pride! Chrystal and Colleen bring you the queer side of baseball history, with plenty of stories and more to check out once you listen: catch the trailer for A Secret Love, learn about The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, read Outsports, watch The TJ House story, and always, always, always stay Proud To Be In Baseball!
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1h 28min
June 17, 2024 Dugout of History 7: Ten Cent Beer Night
Fifty years ago this month, Cleveland had a promotion that simply couldn't fail, until it did, spectacularly and utterly predictably. The result of Ten Cent Beer Night was a victory for the Texas Rangers, and only for the Texas Rangers, as it was one of five Major League Baseball games to be forfeited in the expansion era, and half a century later, brings Colleen and Chrystal back together after their spring vacations.
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1h 2min
May 06, 2024 Dugout of History 6: Candlestick Park
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40min
April 29, 2024 Dugout of History 5: The Catcher Was A Spy
Chrystal and Colleen bring you the tale of Moe Berg, and plenty of source material to dive into after hearing them tell it...

Books:
“The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg” - Nicholas Dawidoff
“The Bastards Brigade” - Sam Kean

Articles:
Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher, and an Enigma (NYT)
Moe Berg: Catcher and Spy (ESPN)
Moe Berg, Class of 1923: Baseball Player, World War II Spy (Princeton University)
The Baseball Player Turned Spy Who Went Undercover To Assassinate The Nazis' Top Nuclear Scientist (Smithsonian)
Moe Berg's Life In Baseball (Baseball Hall of Fame)
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1h 21min
April 22, 2024 Dugout of History 4: The *Chicago* White Sox
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59min
April 08, 2024 Dugout of History 3: Pete Rose
It’s never a good thing when Pete Rose is back in the news, and he has been lately because of the alleged theft of $4.5 million from Shohei Ohtani to cover gambling debts. That story has yet to fully unfold. Rose’s has, to the point where the Washington Post ran not one, but two big stories looking back at it… 10 years ago. This year is the 35th anniversary of the death of then-commissioner Bart Giamatti, who banned Rose, even though so much of what happened feels so recent. Nope, it was 1989. It’s just that Rose, who agreed to his own lifetime ban, has never once shut up about it, and he probably never will.
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59min
April 02, 2024 Sometimes You're The Windshield
Addy, Britt, and Jesse spent the week between F1 races diving into the start of baseball season, which has gone for the Mets about the way we usually expect things to go for Ferrari. But remember how the last F1 race was won by... Ferrari? Wild. Ferrari won the last F1 race. That is a thing that happened. This is a mixed racing/baseball episode, as we've got NASCAR highlights from Richmond to discuss. Addy also wrote about the Mets to go with this episode, you can find that on our website.
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55min

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