Dugout of History

Head for the mountains... of St. Louis? Chrystal and Colleen bring you the story of Busch Stadium, and why it's been named that since long before corporate naming rights at stadiums were commonplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colleen and Chrystal bring you the tale of the Pine Tar Incident, which began in July of 1983 with Brett's ejection from a game after hitting what appeared to be a go-ahead home run at Yankee Stadium and didn't turn out to be one until much later, and with much scandal. And we got a classic bobblehead out of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colleen and Chrystal are baseball mad, have the fever and have it bad... wait, that's not the line, it's Katie Casey who was baseball mad, had the fever and had it bad. If you don't know what song Katie Casey is from, well, yes you do. It's seventh inning stretch time for Dugout of History! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colleen and Chrystal bring you the story of New York's National League baseball team, from the Mets' founding in the wake of the Dodgers and Giants leaving the Big Apple for California, through the 1969 and 1986 world championships, to today's contenders with Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you already know the story, you know that you're in for a good one with Chrystal and Colleen back to talk about Dock Ellis, a 12-year major league veteran, 1971 All-Star and world champion, and author of one of the unlikeliest no-hitters in major league history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colleen and Chrystal bring you the silver lining of Pete Rose's posthumous and political reinstatement to baseball eligibility: Shoeless Joe Jackson, more than a century after the Black Sox scandal, also got unbanned in Rob Manfred's purge of the Permanently Ineligible list. The subject of plenty of artistic pieces and movies over the years, Jackson's true history is one of the most interesting stories the game has to tell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chrystal and Colleen bring you the story of Big Sexy, the one and only Bartolo Colón! From Cleveland to Montreal to Chicago to Anaheim to Boston to New York to Oakland to Atlanta to Minnesota to Texas, one of the era’s biggest arms, bodies, and personalities made a name for himself wherever he went. Signed for $3,000 as a Dominican teenager, Colón went from throwing at soup cans to winning a Cy Youg Award and spending more than than two decades in the major leagues, leaving his mark as a cult hero even after his prime years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colleen and Chrystal welcome documentary filmmaker and New Yorker Heather Quinlan to talk about the last team to bring a World Series championship to Queens, one of the most colorful squads of all time, the 1986 Mets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colleen and Chrystal are back to wade through the swamp of Washington, D.C., and its history of mostly failed attempts to make it in the major leagues, culminating with today's cellar dwellers of the National League East, the team that came as a result of MLB's shenanigans with Montreal (as heard in Dugout of History 14). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chrystal and Colleen bring you the story of the Montreal Expos, from their beginnings as Canada's first MLB team in the 1969 expansion wave to their demise 20 years ago after a series of unfortunate events including having their best seasons in the shadows of labor disputes, a dream ballpark that never materialized, and some of the worst ownership the sport has ever seen, all with an assist from one of the worst owners in baseball today. No one is free from Jerry's anti-Midas touch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They're not playing baseball in Paris, but the diamond and the Olympic rings have a rich history. Colleen and Chrystal are here to talk about it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chrystal and Colleen go back to 1973, when Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich announced a one-of-a-kind trade in baseball history: their wives. Unlike the deals at the trade deadline, no advanced analytics are necessary to figure out whether Susanne or Marilyn wound up with the better deal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.