Indy Neidell's Baseball History Time Machine

The 1968 Winter Meetings saw a lot of changes happening to baseball, a lot of them made to somehow get more bodies into the ever emptier stadia, as the lack of offensive was driving away casual fans by the middle of the decade. One such change is known today as the Gibson Rule, but does it really deserve that name? Also- sidetracks into things like Mike Shannon's career, why the owners were being exceptional dicks just that winter, and what in the world is the Global League?

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In yet another installment of the Tragic Tales series we take a look at Lyman Bostock and Austin McHenry. Of course, there are the usual sidetracks into things like Pickles Dillhoefer, the brief major league career of Red McColl and St. Louis team nomenclature, and plenty more.

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What do we get today? We get Chick Stahl, the 1920 World Series, a sidetrack about mayonnaise, single season headhunter records, and Carl Mays' career story.

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Today we continue telling tragic baseball tales with perhaps the most famous one- the death of Ray Chapman, but there's also the usual side stories and sidetracks, digging into topics like Lightning Ray Caldwell, the 1920 AL pennant race, Wimpy's, and the much anticipated story of Jack Quinn.

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A couple of tragic baseball deaths today for you, and the full story of Jim Creighton's rise to stardom and what he brought to baseball in his brief, tragic career, as well as side tracks into things like 1860s cricket play and the evolution of the called strike.

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A brief update on what we've been up to lately.

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We continue the mini series of pitchers who've struck out 19 or more hitters in a single game with Steve Carlton, but also the usual sidetracks into all sorts of weirdness- Noodles Hahn, the reserve clause, the 1972 players' strike, and more.

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This week begins as another installment of the '19 K Club' series, but soon sidetracks into Ernie Shore's non-perfect game; Babe Ruth slugging an umpire; Slam Agnew's and Pinch Thomas' nicknames; a whole lot about Luis Tiant, and game six of the 1975 World Series.

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Because of summer vacations and being in and out of town, Berns and I have not yet been able to record today's episode (July 19th, 2026). We shall do so tomorrow and I think I can get it out on Tuesday.

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This excellent mini series continues, covering two more pitchers who struck out 19 or more players in a single major league game, Tom Cheney and Luis Tiant, but there also sidetracks as usual. In fact, there are more sidetracks than ever! Indy and Berns veer off into Fidel Castro and Cuban amateur baseball, the history of Indy's last name, the career of the elder Luis Tiant... and plenty more.

(...AND AS A BONUS, you even get a bumping sound off and on during the whole episode, since it turns out Indy's mike stand kept banging the table edge whenever anyone would move)

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