Episodes

  • Minor League Greatness

    Minor League Greatness
    May 6 2025
    Chrystal and Colleen bring you the story of the Kansas City Blues of the early 20th century American Association, who churned out Hall of Fame prospects for the Yankees until Major League Baseball’s westward push brought the A’s to Missouri, and sent them on to Denver, New Orleans, and eventually Wichita.

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    57 mins
  • Salt Lake City Trappers

    Salt Lake City Trappers
    Apr 22 2025
    Colleen and Chrystal bring you the story of a minor league team in Utah that played just eight seasons, but won four Pioneer League titles and set a professional baseball record that still stands -- 29 consecutive wins in 1987, on their way to a three-peat. Part-owned by Bill Murray, before the actor co-founded the St. Paul Saints, the Salt Lake City Trappers had one of the great lightning-in-a-bottle runs in baseball history, all without an affiliation to a major league team after having began their existence in Calgary, where they had been a farm team for the Cardinals and Expos before Alberta got Triple-A baseball (now just as gone as the Trappers, alas).

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    41 mins
  • Rickey Henderson (Part 2)

    Rickey Henderson (Part 2)
    Apr 7 2025
    Picking up from last episode, Chrystal and Colleen join Rickey Henderson for his fourth go-around with the Oakland A's, going through the late stages of the Hall of Famer's record-breaking career, and getting the incredible perspective of all the numbers he put up and the life that he lived.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Rickey Henderson (Part 1)

    Rickey Henderson (Part 1)
    Mar 24 2025
    We're back! During the show's hiatus, Rickey Henderson passed away, five days before Christmas, which would have been his 66th birthday. The greatest leadoff man in baseball history not only kicks off our season, as we get through Rickey's age-39 season... because with him, that was indeed only the beginning.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Billy Martin (Part 4)

    Billy Martin (Part 4)
    Oct 28 2024
    Colleen and Chrystal finish the Billy Martin story with the part of his career that people are most familiar with, the managerial years. But don't worry, there's plenty you haven't heard before, because when it came to Billy Martin, there was always another story, and all the stories are good.

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • Billy Martin (Part 3)

    Billy Martin (Part 3)
    Oct 21 2024
    Colleen and Chrystal bring you the next installment of their exploration of iconic baseball character Billy Martin, this time exploring more of the 1950s Yankees and Martin’s departure, the end of his playing days with seven teams from 1957-61, and Martin’s entry to the world of scouting and coaching and the birth of Billyball.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Billy Martin (Part 2)

    Billy Martin (Part 2)
    Oct 7 2024
    Colleen and Chrystal bring you the next installment of their exploration of iconic baseball character Billy Martin, getting into his playing days, starting with the Idaho Falls Russets in the Pioneer League, going up through the tear gas-soaked minors, and continuing to New York with the Yankees in their 1950s glory days and his bawdy friendship with Mickey Mantle.

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Billy Martin (Part 1)

    Billy Martin (Part 1)
    Oct 1 2024
    Colleen and Chrystal bring you the story of Billy Martin, a story with so many layers, twists, and turns that this is just Part 1, covering his early years — and that means really early, starting with the tale of his birth at home in 1928, and how he found out his actual name, Alfred Manuel Martin Jr., and his colorful Northern California youth. Once he got into baseball, Martin became one of the game’s most interesting characters. What shaped him into the player and manager he became? Find out as we journey from a kitchen table circumcision to a slaughterhouse job to his first pro contract.

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    59 mins