• S1E15: Shutout Percentage Leaders (Career)- Part 3
    Aug 9 2025

    Since Indy went off on so many sidetrcks last week, we'll finish the list of those pitchers who threw shutouts in 10% or more of their career starts this week. Still plenty of sidetracks, Jack Powell, Walt Dropo and the 1950 Red Sox, the 1939 World Series finale, and more.

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    32 mins
  • S1E14: Shutout Percentage Leaders (Career)- Part 2
    Jul 26 2025

    Well, we didn't nearly cover the whole list of those pitchers who threw shutouts in 10% of their career starts or more last time, so we're picking it up again here. There are some surprises on the list, but there are also a few fun sidetracks into other stuff like Rube Waddell's 1902 season and Berns' recent tour with his metal band through SE Europe. A classic episode, of course.

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    37 mins
  • S1E13: Shutout Percentage Leaders (Career)
    Jul 13 2025

    A while ago we covered those pitchers through history who had the greatest percentage of their starts in a single season be complete game shutouts. Well, what the heck- we better look at the career leaders too, right? Also- deep dives into Babe Adams and Addie Joss and what might've been.

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    33 mins
  • S1E12: Nolan Ryan and the 1973 American League Cy Young Award
    Jun 29 2025

    1973 was a watershed year for Major League Baseball- especially in the American League. This episode, Indy and Berns dive into the Cy Young voting that year, and what was so different about just 1973, and how it came to be.

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    36 mins
  • S1E11: Higher Career Batting Average than Ty Cobb, Part Two
    Jun 15 2025

    This is part two of two episodes about those heroes who, at the end of a baseball season at some point in their careers, had a higher career batting average than Ty Cobb finished his career with. Also, George Sisler's eyesight issues, schedules in the 1890s, and the worst single pitching performance ever.

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    32 mins
  • S E1: Summer Schedule Announcement
    Jun 9 2025

    Because of the events in our lives this summer, we have changed our podcasting schedule a bit.

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    4 mins
  • S1E10: Higher Career Batting Average than Ty Cobb, Part One
    Jun 1 2025

    There are a bunch of players in major league history who, at the end of a season at some point in their careers, had higher career batting averages than the great Ty Cobb finished his with. Also- the end of Benny Kauff, the Louisville Eclipse, and the Louisville Slugger.

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    29 mins
  • S1E9: Shutout Percentage Leaders (Single Season)
    May 25 2025

    Today we look at those pitchers in baseball history who've had a season where 25% or more of their starts were shutouts. Also, the double no hit game and Germany Schaefer's called shot.

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    30 mins