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Backwards K Pod; The Mexican League Defections Of 1946

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Backwards K Pod; Eddie Matthews The Santa Barbara Bomber

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Backwards K Pod 1981; The Season Of Fernandomania

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The History Of Baseball In Pittsburgh

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Backwards K Pod; The History Of Baseball In Pittsburgh

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Backwards K Pod Mark Fidrych “The Bird”

Backwards K Pod
Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories
During the 1976 Major League season, a shooting star blazes across the baseball universe, as the kid from nowhere, is seemingly everywhere, becoming a 70’s pop-culture icon.
Mark “The Bird” Fidrych captures the hearts and imagination of seamheads everywhere with his dominant pitching prowess, and his on-mound antics, becoming a character of the game, who won’t soon be forgotten.
Backwards K Pod is available on all platforms, wherever you listen to your shows. Or you can visit diamondsnakejake.podbean.com to hear this or any of the over 100 shows, in the archives, detailing 250 years of baseball history.

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Mark ”The Bird” Fidrych

zhlédnutí 5Před 2 hodinami

Source: www.podbean.com/eau/pb-mtqgi-16c838f During the 1976 Major League Baseball season, a shooting star blazes across the baseball universe, as the kid from nowhere is seemingly everywhere, becoming a 1970's pop-culture icon. Mark " The Bird" Fidrych captures the imagination and hearts of seamheads everywhere with his dominanat pitching prowess, and his on-mound antics, becoming a character ...

Backwards K Pod; The Mexican League Defections Of 1946

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Backwards K Pod; The Mexican League Defections Of 1946

zhlédnutí 25Před 19 hodinami

Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories With players contractually bound to their respective MLB teams, via the Reserve Clause. 22 Major League players defect to the Mexican Baseball League in 1946. New commissioner, Happy Chandler drops the hammer, and levies 5 year suspension, to all the players who jump leagues. This week, we take a look at the 22 players involved, and...

Backwards K Pod; Eddie Matthews The Santa Barbara Bomber

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Backwards K Pod; Eddie Matthews The Santa Barbara Bomber

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Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories In this week’s biographical chapter of ballplayers and their stories, the focus is on the baseball journey and life, of the great Eddie Matthews. In tandem with slugger Hank Aaron, the dynamic duo would become baseball’s most lethal power-hitting combo to ever play the game, as the two develop into the game’s premier, prolific power...

Backwards K Pod 1981; The Season Of Fernandomania

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Backwards K Pod 1981; The Season Of Fernandomania

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Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories The 1981 MLB season is best remembered for two things; a strike-shortened season breaks the season into a story of two halves, and the birth and rise of Fernandomania in Los Angeles. Fernando Valenzuela was the youngest of 12 siblings, from the backwater town of Etchohuaquila, Mexico. He would rise from abject poverty, to become the...

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The History Of Baseball In Pittsburgh

zhlédnutí 8Před 21 dnem

Source: www.podbean.com/eau/pb-ka3kd-169d328 This week I do a deep dive into the history of baseball in the Steel City. I will give you the genesis backstory on a major league team that has been around since 1882. When a rag-tag group of guys from the Burgh, who called themselves the Alleghenies, would play the then young sport of baseball, after working all day in the mills. I will discuss the...

Backwards K Pod; The History Of Baseball In Pittsburgh

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Backwards K Pod; The History Of Baseball In Pittsburgh

zhlédnutí 122Před 21 dnem

Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories This week I do a deep dive into the history of baseball in the Steel City. I give you the genesis backstory on a major league team that has been around since 1882. When a rag-tag group of guys from the Burgh, who called themselves the Alleghenies, would play the then young sport of baseball, after a hard day of work at the mills. I ...

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Backwards K Pod; Stan “The Man” Musial

zhlédnutí 2,7KPřed měsícem

Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories With his famous corkscrew stance, off-balanced follow through, and inside-out swing; line drives came off Stan Musial’s bats like bullets. Stan spent 22 years in the majors, all of them with the St. Louis Cardinals. He won three World Series, and played on 24 All Star Teams. He won 7 batting titles and three MVP awards. This week we...

Stan ” The Man” Musial; The Donora Greyhound

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Stan ” The Man” Musial; The Donora Greyhound

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Source: www.podbean.com/eau/pb-vg4ji-16900cb With his famous corkscrew stance, off balanced follow through, and inside-out swing; line drives came off of Stan Musial's bat like bullets. He spent 22 years in the majors, all with the St. Louis Cardinals. He played in three World Series. and 24 All Star Teams, while winning 7 batting titles, and three league MVP Awards. This week we do a deep char...

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Backwards K Pod; The Georgia Peach

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Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories I’ve had to re-learn the Ty Cobb story, that I’ve heard my whole life, because a fraudulent, hack, sportswriter set the historical narrative. This week I do a deep character profile study of the great Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Discern between the facts and myth, that made up this most complex man. And hopefully I can be but a piece of jus...

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Backwards K Pod; Jim Abbott

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Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories At every level of baseball, Jim Abbott was doubted. They doubted him in grade school little-league, high school, college and the major leagues. He had model size, and a 95 MPH fastball. By any standard he would be considered gifted. What made Abbott stand out during his amateur and pro career, were the challenges he overcame to comp...

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Jim Abbott

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Source: www.podbean.com/eau/pb-n9k64-16586b7 At every level of baseball, Jim Abbott had doubters and skeptics. They doubted him in grade school little-league, high school, college, and the major leagues. He had model size, and a 95 MPH fastball. By any standard, he would be considered great. What made Abbott stand out during his amateur and pro career, were the challenges he overcame to compete...

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Backwards K Pod; The Baker Bowl

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Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories This week we examine the history of the Baker Bowl, the home stadium of the Philadelphia Phillies, from 1887 to 1938. There were two versions of the ballpark. While both were considered state of the art engineering marvels, both would be beset by tragedy and both would devolve from sugar into shit. Backwards K Pod is available on al...