Baseball's Point of No Return

Baseball's Point of No Return

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Baseball's Point of No Return episodes

  • The Day Pipp Sat: Lou Gehrig takes over first base for the Yankees
    This week on Baseball's Point of No Return: The Day Pipp Sat
    A veteran first baseman sat out, and his replacement did not leave the lineup for fourteen years.
    Still debated: The popular story that Pipp asked out with a headache is not firmly documented; accounts differ on why he did not play that day.
    Miles Corbin is a fictional, AI-voiced host created by Baseball Nation Network. The games, the people and the consequences are real, and where the record is unsettled we say so.
    Everything Baseball. Every Day. Every Era. — Baseball Nation Network
    17 min
  • A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood refuses a trade and takes baseball to the Supreme Court
    This week on Baseball's Point of No Return: A Well-Paid Slave
    A star center fielder was traded, and he decided not to go.
    Still debated: How directly Flood's case led to the 1975 Seitz ruling is debated; historians differ on how much credit it deserves.
    Miles Corbin is a fictional, AI-voiced host created by Baseball Nation Network. The games, the people and the consequences are real, and where the record is unsettled we say so.
    Everything Baseball. Every Day. Every Era. — Baseball Nation Network
    17 min
  • The Arbitrator's Ruling: Peter Seitz, Andy Messersmith, Dave McNally and the end of the reserve clause
    This week on Baseball's Point of No Return: The Arbitrator's Ruling
    Two pitchers played a season without signing, and one arbitrator had to decide what that meant.
    Still debated: How quickly salaries would have risen without this ruling, and whether the owners could have negotiated a softer outcome, are matters of interpretation.
    Miles Corbin is a fictional, AI-voiced host created by Baseball Nation Network. The games, the people and the consequences are real, and where the record is unsettled we say so.
    Everything Baseball. Every Day. Every Era. — Baseball Nation Network
    18 min
  • The Express Leaves New York: Nolan Ryan, the Mets, and the trade that sent a fastball west
    This week on Baseball's Point of No Return: The Express Leaves New York
    A young pitcher with the best arm in the organization and nobody sure what to do with him.
    Still debated: How much of Ryan's development was available to the Mets at the time, and how much only emerged with the Angels, is debated.
    Miles Corbin is a fictional, AI-voiced host created by Baseball Nation Network. The games, the people and the consequences are real, and where the record is unsettled we say so.
    Everything Baseball. Every Day. Every Era. — Baseball Nation Network
    17 min
  • One Strike From Forever: The Rangers, the Cardinals, and Game 6 of the 2011 World Series
    This week on Baseball's Point of No Return: One Strike From Forever
    Texas was one strike away from the first championship in franchise history. Twice.
    Still debated: Whether Nelson Cruz was positioned too shallow on the Freese triple is still argued; contemporary and retrospective accounts disagree.
    Miles Corbin is a fictional, AI-voiced host created by Baseball Nation Network. The games, the people and the consequences are real, and where the record is unsettled we say so.
    Everything Baseball. Every Day. Every Era. — Baseball Nation Network
    17 min

About Baseball's Point of No Return

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Every Tuesday, Baseball Nation Network takes one real moment from Major League Baseball history — a managerial decision, a trade, a confrontation, a swing, a pitch, an organizational choice — and follows it all the way to the place where the story could no longer be taken back.