Matt and Tom Discuss – Bob Feller, Pitching Machines, December 15th, Free Agency, Bill Hamilton and Tommie Agee December 15th Show Notes December 15, 1896 – THE PITCHING CANNON AT WORK In 1896, Princeton University mathematics instructor Charles Hinton designed a gunpowder-powered baseball pitching machine for the Princeton University baseball team’s batting practice….
December 12, 1941 – Future Hall of Famer Arky Vaughan is traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Bucs receive four players in return, catcher “Hot Potato” Hamlin, Pete Coscarart, Babe Phelps and Jimmy Wasdell. Shifted to third base by the Dodgers, Vaughan had an off year in 1942, batting just .277, to finish under .300…
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Chris Dimino and Larry Doby recount his life on and off the field that he’s been shortchanged by that narrative. The HOFer lived an incredible one. Baseball AND Social History lesson. The first African-American player in the American League, Larry Doby was a power-hitting center fielder and a key member of Cleveland’s pennant winners in…
What if I told you that there is a Podcast where a man who played with Jackie Robinson & Roy Campanella & Sandy Koufax..and pitched to Joe DiMaggio & Mickey Mantle in the World Series was now available to hear? My conversation with 93-year-old Carl Erskine is a social and baseball history lesson..and is an…
Hardball with Chris Dimino is a podcast almost 20 years in the making. Conversations. Not “interviews”… I promise not interviews. Conversations that I have had with some of the greatest players and others who have been a part of some of the biggest moments in baseball history. Ted Williams. Hank Aaron. Stan Musial. Whitey ford….
HARDBALL PODCASTEpisode 20HOFer Jim Palmer An amazing story before he ever appeared in his first game in an Oriole uniform. Adopted at 2 days old..and another life changing event at 9..and a car accident at 17 that almost derailed his career before it ever really got started…Jim knows how both fortunate and lucky he…
I have been a fan and a player of Strat-o-Matic for 30+ years and I am excited they are going to provide the fans with some needed stress relief from the world’s events as the simulate the 2020 Season Day by Day. I am going to Podcast about this and bring you the daily updates….
This Week we cover August 26 – Sept 1 . . . We are going to talk Tom Yawkey, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Bagwell, The First Televised Game, Rob Dibble, The Rat and Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell. TRIVIA – Who was the first black/African American player in Major League Baseball History? On August 26, 1939…
Today we are covering August 19 – 25, we are going to be talking about – Jimmie Foxx pitching career, Gooden early excellence, Bill Veek grand stand moment, Yogi Berra and the harmonica, Juan Marichal and John Roseboro fight and the professional pinch hitter Matt Stairs. If you love the history of the game, and…