TWISHPOD "The Week in Sports History"

Ty Cobb begins and ends his career in this week, in 1906 the Philadelphia A's faced the Boston Americans playing 24 innings, both pitchers went the distance facing 87 and 89 hitters each and 1950 Gil Hodges joins the most elite club in baseball with 4 homers in a one game. 

AFTER A 5 WEEK HIATUS...THE STORY OF RAY CALDWELL WHO GOT HIT BY A BOLT OF LIGHTINING PICTCHING IN CLEVELAND AND FINISHED THE GAME. PHIL GRATE SETS THE WORLD RECORD THROWING A BASEBALL OVER 440 FT AND OLYMPIC SWIMMER ETHELDA BLEIBTREY BREAKS BARRIERS.

We start with the liquor review, two nice Bourbons: Basil Hayden and the Kirkland small batch. 1889 the final sanctioned bare knuckle fight goes 75 rounds, 1921 Babe Ruth becomes the all time home run leader at 137 and 1941 Joe Dimaggio's hitting streaks comes to an end.

Branch Rickey the player, the first collegiate baseball game had the same score as a basketball game and adults playing with a Stretch Armstrong doll.

After a minor unavoidable sabbatical...The Twishod is back with a triple episode where we discuss Tommy Lasorda's 15 inning complete game in 1948, multiple achievements by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Joe Louis' crazy year in 1941.

Major league baseball's first televised game! How Cal cured athletes foot and why Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fought 61 rounds in 1891 WITH NO WINNER! 

This week a special double sized Twishpod two weeks in one. We discuss Bob Shaw crazy night in 1963 where he n=balked 5 times, the first perfect game in baseball thrown by Cy Young and the night in 1934 the Red Sox for consecutive triples.

This Week In Sports History Lou Gehrig gets jobbed on a home by Lyn Lary. Jim Clancy doesn't touch the ball at all for 9 innings...at first base!, and Billy Martin hired by the Yankees for a 4th time.

This Week In Sports History we look at the Clippers horrific 1987 season, the NFL changing the rule that allows coaches to signal from the sideline and Billy Martins unique way of picking the lineup. 

The remarkable 1938 Stanley Cup winning Chicago Blackhawks. The first great pole vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam who set the World Record with a bamboo pole and Bob Goalby's strange win over Roberto Devicenzo at the Masters 1968.