This Week In Baseball History
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This Week In Baseball History
This Week In Baseball History is a weekly podcast devoted to the history of baseball, hosted by Mike Bates and Bill Parker, the co-founders of The Platoon Advantage and writers on many fine websites.
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Episode 383 - Edgar Doubles Into Our Hearts
There are so many ways in which Edgar Martinez's career might not have happened. He could have missed the open tryout where he was discovered. He migh...
Episode 382 - Next Year Finally Comes To Brooklyn
The decades of baseball in Brooklyn were mostly marked by one failure after another until the club got their act together in the 1940s. Still, the Dod...
Episode 118 (Re-run) - The Life and Death of Lyman Bostock
Mike's doing better after his bout with pneumonia, but his voice is still on the fritz this week. So we have one more classic episode of TWIBHistory f...
Episode 168 (Re-run) - The Griffeys Go Back-to-Back
So, it turns out Mike has pneumonia. He's getting better. But while we wait for him to complete his rehab assignment, please enjoy this re-release of...
Episode 381 - A Celebration of Davey Johnson
Please excuse Mike this week, as he is dealing with some laryngitis and was on restricted duty during this episode. But Bill certainly stepped up as t...
Episode 380 - Baseball's New High Score
Baseball is a beautiful game when it's played well. But when it isn't...well, you get games like one that occured 103 years ago this week, when the Ph...
Episode 260 (Re-run) - SABR Pirate Radio, Part 2 (with Melissa Ludtke)
Apologies for an extra re-run this month. Mike is dealing with a personal thing, and we will be back with a new episode next week.
Some people p...
Episode 379 - The Little League World Series Gets A Little Bigger
Perhaps nothing unites more baseball fans than the shared experience of playing Little League Baseball. But, until 1974, only boys were allowed to pla...
Episode 378 - One Random Game VI
Every now and again, Mike and Bill like to take a break from the exciting world of actual baseball history and delve into the much more relaxing regul...
Episode 162 (Re-run) - Dave Winfield Commits Murder Most Fowl
With Mike on vacation this week, we dig once again into our archives to present a classic TWIB History. One of the best ballplayers and most incredibl...
Episode 377 - To Infinity, But Not Beyond Because That Is Impossible
Some guys don't get mentioned on baseball history podcasts because they're underrated. This week's guys don't get mentioned on most baseball history p...
Episode 376 - The Mets Get Caught At Cooter's (with special guest David Roth)
The 1986 Mets are one of the truly iconic teams in baseball history, with a roster full of unbelievable talent, unbridled machismo, and borderline cri...
Episode 375 - The New 4,000 Hit Club (with Adam Darowski)
For so long, we've thought that the 4,000 hit club was one of the most exclusive in baseball history, with just two members. But on the 98th anniversa...
Episode 374 - The Cobra
The 1970s era cool just wafted off of Dave Parker, the gigantic Pirates slugger who was one of the best, if not THE BEST players in baseball in the la...
Episode 157 (Re-run) - Larry Doby Is First and Second
With the boys still recovering from SABR last week in Dallas, it's a perfect time to revisit the great Larry Doby, who never gets nearly enough attent...
Episode 298 (Re-run) - Chicago Chicanery, or It's 3 Minutes To Midnight Somewhere
Mike and Bill are off this week at SABR and are getting this classic episode up late. In that spirit, please enjoy this encore presentation of Episode...
Episode 373 - The Big Poison Podcast
While his nickname suggested otherwise, Paul Waner was good for whatever was ailing the Pirates for 15 of his 20 big league seasons. But 83 years ago...
Episode 372 - Don Drysdale Dominates
Don Drysdale was one of the most intimidating pitchers to ever take a big league mound, and his career seemingly reached its peak 57 years ago this we...
Episode 371 - Lou Gehrig, Early Streaker
When we think of Lou Gehrig, we usually think about one of two things: his tragic early death or his record breaking consecutive games played streak,...
Episode 51 (re-run) - Eddie Grant Goes to War
Due to a personal conflict, Mike was unable to help with a new episode this week. So, in honor of Memorial Day, we are re-running a very early episode...
Episode 370 - The Red Sox Close the Doerr On Number One
Bobby Doerr is not talked about much outside of Boston these days, but was a pretty big deal back in the 1940s, when he suddenly elevated his game to...
Episode 201 (Re-run) - Joe DiMaggio Goes Streaking
It's one of the most iconic records in sports, Joe DiMaggio's unbelievably improbable 56 game hitting streak, that began 84 years ago this week. With...
Episode 369 - The Kerry Wood Game
Sometimes it takes a while for a prospect to reach his full potential. Sometimes, all it takes is five starts. That's what happened with Kerry Wood, w...
Episode 368 - This Podcast Is Rated Double-X
One of the most awe-inspiring superstars of all time, Jimmie Foxx didn't start out that way, joining Connie Mack's Athletics at the age of 16. Foxx sp...
Episode 367 - Talking Talking To Sadaharu Oh (with special guest Michael Clair)
Every great story begins somewhere, and the world home run king's journey to 868 career home runs began 66 years ago this week, when Sadaharu Oh hit h...
Episode 366 - Smith Realee Smashes the Saves Record
Between the generations of three inning late game relievers like Rollie Fingers and Goose Gossage and the one inning high leverage relievers like Mari...
Episode 365 - Homer Race, 2000
The Joker famously believed that all it took to drive someone insane was one bad day. But Gordon didn't have to go through what MLB pitchers did 25 ye...
Episode 194 (Re-run) - The Pilots Crash and Burn
55 years ago this week, if the story is to be believed, a truck waited at a rest area in the middle of Utah, waiting to find out if it should travel w...
Episode 364 - Kiki Cuyler Catches Another Bad Break
Continuing their recent run of outfielders who may or may not be Hall of Fame material, Mike and Bill look back this week at the life and career of "C...
Episode 41 (Re-run) - Charlie Brown Plays, and Homers, for Peanuts (with special guest Larry Granillo)
As they gear up for the start of the regular season, Mike and Bill proudly present an encore episode from the early days of the show:
With all d...
Episode 363 - Chucking Klein Into Cooperstown
The parade of questionable Hall of Fame outfielders continue, as Mike and Bill celebrate Chuck Klein being elected to Cooperstown by the Veterans Comm...
Episode 362 - What's All the Hooperla About Harry?
Despite being a fine player for 17 seasons and a World Series hero three times over, Harry Hooper is one of the least discussed Hall of Famers in 2025...
Episode 361 - Pinstripes and More
Over more than a century, the Yankee pinstripes have perhaps become the most iconic uniform element in all of sports, instantly identifiable to fans e...
Episode 360 (Supplemental) - That Missing 6th Inning
Mike accidentally deleted his description of the 6th inning and the unappreciated efforts of Frank McCormick from this week's episode, and so re-prese...
Episode 360 - Random Game V
With the baseball history cupboard relatively bare this week, Mike and Bill fire up the ol' randomizer, which settles on an early season Reds and Pira...
Episode 359 - The Rise and Fall of the Senior Professional Baseball Association
After threatening for years, Mike and Bill finally get around to the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Assocation to celebrate the 35th anniver...
Episode 136 (Re-run) - The Dodgers Break Up a Good Thing
There has never been an infield that has played together longer, more often, or perhaps better than the Dodgers' incredible combination of Steve Garve...
Episode 358 - Earle Combs Slides Into Cooperstown
More maligned than most inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Earle Combs has developed an unfair reputation over the last decade or so as one of...
Episode 357 - The Many Lives of Bob Uecker
In 1961, Chuck Dressen told Bob Uecker that there was no place in baseball for a clown. But Uecker proved him wrong over the next 64 years, becoming a...
Episode 356 (Re-post) - The Umpire Gets The W
Apologies for the truncated version of this episode that appeared initially. This has been rectified in this re-posting.
Bernice Gera tried exc...