Baseball Rabbithole

In this inning of the Baseball Rabbithole, you get to hear what I sounded like when I had COVID and you get to learn about mascots.

I wanted to know more about how baseballs were made and fell down a rabbithole about the manufacturing of baseballs that includes plenty of corruption and conspiracies. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In a Rabbithole off of a Rabbithole, I go looking for balls. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Who held the single season home run record before Babe Ruth? It's over a century of controversy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I delve into the history of the Wrigley Field Bleachers and it takes me on a looooong journey to the South Side and Comiskey Park. It's a Red Line El episode, sort of, so check it out. Also, check out http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/WrigleyField.html . This website has awesome schematics of baseball fields and how they've changed over the years. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this inning, I look at the oldest and youngest All Star players in the history of MLB and along the way, the rabbitholes take me to baseball stadium names, the DH, and an extraordinarily long career. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sadly, we must say goodbye to the voice of baseball.

Ugh. What I thought would be a quick podcast about team names turned into way longer than I ever wanted to do and took way more work. This is not perfect, but it is done. I hope you learn some stuff and enjoy this really long episode. I think you can start to feel my aggravation about how long it is taking during the show itself. Sorry about that. On the plus side, this is the first episode with the brand new Rabbithole theme song by Danny Rockett. If you don't like the episode, at least you will like the song. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Over the winter of 2021-22, the team in Cleveland changed their name to the Guardians. This led me to wonder "How many names have all the MLB teams had in their history?" This led me on a superficial trek through the history of each team, what they were called, and where they called home. There are 30 teams in the MLB, so I'm actually only doing the National League in the Top of the Third. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Who was the first woman to play baseball on a professional team? It goes back farther than you think. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's a special anniversary for work stoppages in MLB and the players may have lost the 1994 strike. It's all in this episode of the Baseball Rabbithole. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The greatest thing that has ever happened to Major League Baseball is the Designated Hitter... Just not for the reasons that you think. Check out the 9th Inning and change your attitude about the DH. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Lou Gehrig had the record for most consecutive games played for a long time, but what do you know about the guy he replaced? It's Lou Gehrig and Wally Pipp and more on this inning of The Baseball Rabbithole. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How did President Taft invent the wave? Check out this episode of the Baseball Rabbithole to find out. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This is a supplement to the 6th Inning show. I read the poems on that one, but I thought everyone would enjoy listening to professionals read them. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I wrote about three completely different poems and never realized until I was done that it involved the same two teams each time. NOTE: I am re-releasing this episode. The first version had a hiss, so I did some work to try and fix the sound a bit. I hope it helped. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Let's get poetic. I did a whole show about baseball poetry and didn't even realize until the editing that all my poems had to do with the same teams across a hundred years. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Fats Jenkins and Cumberland Posey were historic in two sports as well as a ton of other baseball players. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I get started with one all star game and end up with a completely different one as I follow a rabbithole on the SouthSide of Chicago. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This is a baseball podcast with an animal name and in this episode, I find out about some of the animals in baseball lore. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Spring training just started, but I'm already dreaming about opening day. I jump down the Baseball Rabbithole this week to find out who has the most opening day victories and I end up learning about the Original 8 MLB teams and much more. C'mon Alice, the rabbithole awaits. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Michael goes down the Baseball Rabbithole to find out about the guy that invented baseball, and ends up learning about fake media and the Civil War instead. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Baltimore Orioles have posted that pitchers and catchers are supposed to report to spring training on February 16th. That sounds like the perfect day to drop the first inning of the Baseball Rabbithole Podcast. Each month will bring another baseball history podcast of oddities I find in the baseball rabbitholes I go down on the internet. If you have a rabbithole you would like me to explore, hit me up on Twitter @IndiePodReport. See you on the internet basepaths. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app