Dugout of History

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Chrystal and Colleen bring you the tale of Moe Berg, and plenty of source material to dive into after hearing them tell it... Books: “The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg” - Nicholas Dawidoff “The Bastards Brigade” - Sam Kean Articles: Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher, and an Enigma (NYT) Moe Berg: Catcher and Spy (ESPN) Moe Berg, Class of 1923: Baseball Player, Worl...

This could have been all yours, Milwaukee. Or Tampa Bay. Perhaps it still could be yours, Nashville. Or perhaps the White Sox belong in Chicago and will be there forever, no matter how bad their owners are, what kind of weirdos want to buy them and move them, or what damage they do to their own stadium in the name of hating disco music. You think 2024 is bad for the Pale Hose? Let's take a trip ba...

It’s never a good thing when Pete Rose is back in the news, and he has been lately because of the alleged theft of $4.5 million from Shohei Ohtani to cover gambling debts. That story has yet to fully unfold. Rose’s has, to the point where the Washington Post ran not one , but two big stories looking back at it… 10 years ago. This year is the 35th anniversary of the death of then-commissioner Bart...

In episode 2 of Dugout of History, Chrystal and Colleen dig into the Pittsburgh drug trials , the scandal that many people know because the Pirate Parrot mascot was implicated as a coke dealer, but that had far-reaching impacts across major league baseball, including shaping the sport’s drug policy into the Steroid Era. For me (producer Jesse, writing the show notes), it’s a very interesting episo...

Colleen and Chrystal start the show by going deep into history for the story of Merkle's Boner, a dramatic turn of events in 1908 that to most folks now is just a funny name for an incident more than a century ago. There's so much more to it than just the boner. From Wikipedia: Merkle's Boner  refers to the notorious  base-running  mistake committed by rookie  Fred Merkle &nbsp...