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Send us Fan Mail This episode of Mostly Forgotten Teams covers the Akron Numatics who played one season in the then Double-A International League in 1920. Most modern sources list them as the Akron Buckeyes.

Send us Fan Mail This Minor League Nerd Special Episode is the story of a caper...the potato caper.

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History episode is part three of a three part series looking at the history of professional baseball in Ottawa, ON. This episode covers 1993 to 1923.

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History episode is part two of a three part series looking at the history of professional baseball in Ottawa, ON. This episode covers 1922 to 1954.

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History episode is part one of a three part series looking at the history of professional baseball in Ottawa, ON. This episode covers 1898 to 1915.

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Minor League Nerd Shorts covers the Princeton Infants who play in the Class D Kentucky-Illinois-Tennessee League in 1905.

Send us Fan Mail In 1914 and 1915, the city of Cleveland hosted two professional baseball teams, one in the major American League and one in the minor American Association. This episode of Mostly Forgotten Teams tells that story.

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History Series episode is about the St. Louis Browns who played in the American League from 1902 to 1953. We covered them in our now discontinued Throwback Thursday Cap of the Day Series, which is currently our most popular episode on YouTube. Instead of expanding and recutting the episode, like we've been doing with other episodes in that series, we decided to...

Send us Fan Mail This Minor League Nerd Franchise History episode looks at the Havana Sugar Kings who played in the Triple-A International League from 1954 until July 1960 when they relocated to Jersey City, NJ. They began play in the Class C Florida International League in 1946.

Send us Fan Mail This Minor League Nerd Special Episode looks at the rivalry and fight that took place between the Hollywood Stars and the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League on Sunday August 2, 1953.

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Minor League Nerd Shorts looks at the history of the Myrtle Beach Hurricanes, who began in 1981 as the Florence Blue Jays. They were originally covered in our old Throwback Thursday Cap of the Day series. Those episodes were never uploaded as podcast versions, making this our fifth expanded and recut episode from that series.

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Minor League Nerd Shorts looks at the Sunbury Senators/Indians who began as a semi-pro team before becoming charter members of the Class C, later Class B, Insterstate League in 1939. They only lasted one more season before leaving town.

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History episode is about the Cleveland Buckeyes who played in the Negro American League during the 1940s and into 1950.   They were originally covered in our old Throwback Thursday Cap of the Day Series, but those episodes were never uploaded as a podcast version, making this our fourth expanded and recut episode from that series.

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Minor League Nerd Shorts look at the Paris Parisians. Actually, this is a doubleheader of sorts, as there were two teams that played under that name. The first played in the Eastern Illinois League for part of 1907 and all of 1908 and the second played in the Kentucky-Illinois-Tennessee, or KITTY League from 1922 to 1924. 

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History episode is the continuation of our last Mostly Forgotten Teams episode about the Houston Buffalo(e)s/Buffs. After Houston was awarded a National League Franchise, which began play as the Colt .45s in 1962, the Houston Buffs relocated to Oklahoma City, OK, becoming the first Triple-A team in the city. This episode looks at their history through the 2023 seaso...

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History episode is about the first professional baseball team to play in Houston, TX. Some sources show the name spelled as BUFFALOES, other as BUFFALOS and some just called them the BUFFS, which eventually became their official name. No matter the spelling, they had a very long and successful time in the city of Houston.

Send us Fan Mail This Minor League Nerd Shorts episode is about the one year wonder Queens Kings, who were a placeholder franchise for the Brooklyn Cyclones. The Kings were originally covered in our old Throwback Thursday Cap of the Day Series, but was never uploaded as a podcast version, making this our third expanded and recut episode from that series.

Send us Fan Mail This Minor League Nerd Shorts episode is about the short lived Jacksonville Beach Sea Birds who played in the Class D Florida State League from 1952 to 1954. The team's history actually has a connection to the Civil Rights Movement.  They were covered in our old Throwback Thursday Cap of the Day series, but those was not uploaded as a podcast, making this is our second expand...

Send us Fan Mail This Franchise History Series episode is about the Schaumburg Flyers who played in the independent Northern League from 1999 to 2010. They were covered in our old Throwback Thursday Cap of the Day series, but those was not uploaded as a podcast. This is our first expanded and recut episode from that series.

Send us Fan Mail This is part three of our three part series looking at the history of professional baseball in Anderson, SC. This installment covers 1974 to 2007.

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of a three part Minor League Nerd Shorts series looking at the history of professional baseball in Anderson, SC. This installment covers 1970 to 1973.

Send us Fan Mail This is part one of a three part series looking at the history of professional baseball in Anderson, SC. This installment covers 1907 to 1954.

Send us Fan Mail The Milwaukee Brewers were members of the American Association from 1902 to 1952. This episode looks at their history, as well as the history of the teams that succeeded them when the franchise relocated three times. Hosted by Christina Robinson Researched, written and edited by Kelly Robinson Sources: https://www.amazon.com/American-Association-Milwaukee-Brewers-Baseball/dp/07385...

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Send us Fan Mail This episode of Minor League Nerd Special Episodes covers the game played between the black Wichita Monrovians team and a team made up of members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1925. For this episode, we have a special guest host, Cheats from the Black Baseball Mixtape.  You can find the Black Baseball Mixtape Online here: Twitter: @BBallMixtape Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackb...