Two Strike Noise - A Baseball History Podcast

This week, which states are looking up long dead and gone “Sluggers”? WBC rosters are filling out including a show favorite suiting up, the Butterworths from Mobile were at a Giants game in 1995 and we talk NBA (only for a second and how it relates to a baseball topic, it will never happen again).  Then we do some early spring cleaning/mop up duty with some stories even too quick for a Tales segme...

It’s a new year and a new episode. Orioles tweets from former simple fan now turned front office exec, Cardinals fun facts and the Spiderman bases that never happened. The main event this week is former Yankee masher Hideki Matsui. A NPB Hall of Famer who mashed on two different continents, traded pranks with his buddy Derek Jeter and maintained a well known mega-collection of adult films.  Our fi...

Happy Holidays from Two Strike Noise. Our gift to you is…another Tales from the Dugout episode! And there is no gift receipt so you can’t return it. You’re stuck with stories about the 1905 World Series, a pitcher called Cannonball, Babe Ruth hot takes from the streets of NYC from 1922 and Tiger fans debate “Tastes Great” or “Less Filing” until they ruined it. We pulled a couple of strong packs fo...

This week we go hard, for the off-season. Which Tom Emanski hat does Fred McGriff choose? We check the short list of MLB players from New Hampshire (it’s quick) and look at numbers if everybody played at Coors field throughout baseball history. In our main segment we chronicle the man who is thought to be the grand father of the knuckleball, Toad Ramsey. His story was made for Two Strike Noise, ch...

Alot to unpack this week! It is the quintessential off-season show. Word games, baseball and wrestling cross overs, big guys stealing bags, disasters at large hotels and of course the obligatory Rickey Henderson factoid. In out main segment, we relive the first month of the Baltimore Orioles 1988 season. It was over before it started really. The O’s found new and inventive ways to lose 21 straight...

We may be in the off-season but we found a way you can still listen to a game while drifting off to sleep, baseball ASMR. Plus we check in with the Fighters new stadium where they apparently forgot to measure, remember a great Rick Sutcliffe story and talk some Saved By the Bell Fantasy Camp. Our main story is about a big guy who hit some monster home runs but did not like being a baseball player...

We’re back at it this week where we discuss a former show favorite who was cast in the original movie production of Grease but turned down the role. Who was it? Then we dive into the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee’s final ballot and go through all of the numbers as well as some other equally important things about each player like quality of nicknames, controversies and ofcourse pop c...

The baseball season is over, but fret not, we have another action packed podcast about nothing but, wait for it…baseball. We’ve got all the odd facts and records from this year’s post-season, a mascot beaning, Randy Johnson tipping pitches, Jose Canseco spouting off on social media again and some Ted Williams numbers that reinforce the fact that Ted Williams was good at baseball. In this edition o...

We start out the final week of MLB this year with some World Series talk, some cryptic comments from the commissioner about extra innings next season, we check in on the Climax Series from the NPB, rehash some David Wells memorabilia video and answer our first round of trivia for the off season. In our main segment, we talk about one of the best lead off batters from the 70’s in Mick the Quick, Mi...

It’s World Series time! We get ready as MLB wraps up the season by looking forward to some more baseball across the world to keep us busy until spring, plus we find out what the dictionary thinks about Hunter Strickland, we look at players who have played for their namesake, have what might be our final debut of the season and dip our toes in the trivia pool for the first time since March! Our mai...

This week in BP, which #MLB playoff announcer has surprised us, what was Randy Johnson’s tell and a very large fine is levied but to whom? Our main story this week is about the aptly named Moon Man, Greg Minton. The nickname fit him for a couple of reasons, but the original one is kinda gross, just like his sinker. It was almost un-hittable for a while. The Moon Man also applies to some of Greg pr...

So much MLB playoff stuff to get through in our BP segment, new units of measurements, last games for Hall of Famers, the Seattle Mariners pacing the league in the past 20 seasons, some outstanding (but not in a good way) caught stealing numbers and a truly forgettable unforgettable debut. In our main segment, we recap the first real HR race since Maris’ 1961 season, Cecil Fielder and his 51 long...

Big Boss hangs it up, kind of, Yoenis Cespedes is helping Aaron Judge hit homers, kind of, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia is dethroned as clubhouse managers least favorite player. All that plus some crazy tales from the dugout as we run through some quick stories of forgotten players, games and rainouts from the past this week. In Wax Pack Heroes we rip some Score and Donruss to see who can compile the...

It was a crazy week in baseball & this episode was crazy too! Albert Pujols did a thing, we talk about it. Lars Nootbaar did some stuff, we talked about it! Creepy people watched baseball games, we talked about it! The Rays did some stuff with Bark in the Park, we talked about it! Bean Reardon umpired some games & was not afraid of a fight, verbal or otherwise. We talked about him! We played Wax P...

If you were left wanting more MLB weather-related names last week, we got you! Also a crazy story from Chicago about the 1919 World Series, Lars Nootbaar continues to be the best baseball player that sounds like a candy bar, a bunch of debuts including a Cleveland Spiders reference and the obligatory Seinfeld clip. The main topic this week is the planned contraction of two teams for the 2002 seaso...

This week, Ham Swaggerty makes Joe Simpson mad, Ted Williams doesn’t like neck ties, Joe DiMaggio stand Chesterfield cigarettes, we review Sept 13 in baseball history, Gaby Street makes another appearance and we delve into some of the craziest fines ever doled out in MLB Kangaroo Courts. In this week’s Wax Pack Heroes, we battle with some 2003 Topps.  Twitter - @twostrikenoise Instagram - @twostri...

This week we discuss walk up music as NFT’s, an very obscure Simpson’s baseball reference that is brilliant and dive into the thousands of players who have made their MLB debut on this date throughout September call up history. In our main segment, we talk with El Paso Chihuahuas play by play voice, Tim Hagerty. Besides calling the Padres AAA team’s action he also is an author & has a new book com...

Can Big Boss save the Fighters? The Mets are trying to catch up with the Yankees in number of retired numbers, but we don’t get this one. A former guest was at Old Timers Day at Citi Field and Mark explains why Ken Griffey Jr. Is not joining us for this episode. Our main segment this week looks at the colorful history of MLB playoffs before the first World Series. Who was playing? What were they p...

We try to regain our spot on the top whiskey podcasts with some baseball related whiskey news from Big Papi, check in with Lars Nootbaar and check out some debuts from the past. In our popular Tales from the Dugout segment we found some stories of some odd umpires, a missed opportunity with a light hitting shortstop from the 60’s and some “oddities” of some players a century ago that we doubt seem...

Mark is back and just in time to talk about a pitcher coming out of retirement, some jersey number oddities, a great Rickey Henderson story told by Will Clark and a debut by a recent Hall of Famer. Then, in this week’s main segment, we remember the incomparable Vin Scully. He was the voice of baseball to many growing up and to Dodger fans for over 60 years. He covered some of the most memorable ga...

Jeff’s all by himself this week but there is no lack of things to talk about. We delve into the Yankees very own two strike noise, baseball’s best new nickname, the obligatory Seinfeld reference, Rickey Henderson (because ofcourse), Lars Nootbaar, debuts and to put a bow on it, Vin Scully.  Twitter - @twostrikenoise Instagram - @twostrikenoise Two Strike Noise on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/...

Alot of crazy baseball stuff to catch up on this week! Real stirrups are making a come back, sort of. We address a mis-guided critique and look forward to next year’s Hall of Fame eligible players, hint, it doesn’t take very long, as well as review the Derek Jeter documentary so far and discuss what the most common jersey number is throughout the history of baseball. We then remember Alex Cole’s l...

Our first post-All Star episode of the season and we’ve got alot to cover. We talk Hall of Fame pitchers and awards as well as look which jersey numbers produce the most WAR both recently and historically and the debuts segments is chalked full of some of the greatest names we’ve seen yet. Author John Vampatella (The Forgotten Game) joins us again to help us sort through some of the greatest one s...

The All Star break is upon us and this week we take time out to remember some All Star Game mishaps. Mainly, alot of players wearing equipment that belongs to teams they do not play for. It’s like a game of musical batting helmets as players scramble to replace lost or forgotten equipment. Plus, we tracked down the Saturday Night Live skit with Tracy Morgan playing Jermaine Allensworth, get an upd...

This week we catch up with a crazy triple play, position players pitching, the passing of a scouting & radar gun holding Dodger legend and some very interesting debuts. In our Tales from the Dugout section we talk about pace of play versus other sports and some of baseball’s biggest meltdowns inspired by Chris Sales tantrum last week. In Wax Pack Heroes we return to some more traditional cards and...