Baseball On This Date

Today is February 6, 2017. Travel back with me to this date in 1995. Today we're checking in with Darryl Strawberry, one of the biggest names in the game not only because of his incredible talent and successes on the field, but often, and sadly, because of his poor decision-making and self-destructive actions.    Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is February 5, 2017. Travel back with me to this date in 2002. We're headed to New York City, to the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, where Allan "Bud" Selig will benignly announce that MLB's plan to contract two franchises prior to the 2002 season has fallen through. But oh, the tangled web we will weave leading up to this announcement.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is February 4, 2017. Travel back with me to this date in 1893. We're headed to the Columbia recording studio in New York City where we'll hear Russell Hunting, one of the recording world's best known voices at the time, perform and record Casey at the Bat, a poem about baseball which will become one of the best known of any time.   Casey at the Bat, by Ernest L. Thayer It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood two to four, with but an inning left to play. So, when Cooney died at second, and Burrows did the same, A pallor wreathed the features of the patrons of the game. A straggling few got up to go, leaving there the rest, With that hope which springs eternal within the human breast. For they thought: "If only Casey could get a whack at that," They'd put even money now, with Casey at the bat. But Flynn preceded Casey, and likewise so did Blake, And the former was a pudd'n and the latter was a fake. So on that stricken multitude a deathlike silence sat; For there s

Today is February 3, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1938. Today we're traveling to scenic Champaign/Urbana, home of the University of Illinois. But we're not here for any old campus visit; we're here to visit Lou Boudreau, captain of the U of I's basketball team, as he finds out he has been suspended from the team for the remainder of the season.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is February 2, 2017. Travel back with me to this date in 1876. Today we're taking our baseball time machine to the Central Hotel in New York City, where we'll sit in on a clandestine meeting between eight of the game's most prominent teams as they organize the National League, splitting off from the rest of organized baseball and laying the groundwork for the business of baseball that we know today.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is February 1, 2017. Travel back with me to this date in 1914. Today we're headed to… Egypt? That's right, Egypt! where the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants will play an exhibition in the shadow of the pyramids as they travel the globe on a 44-city world tour.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 21, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1921. We've travelled several times now to see the impact and results of some of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis' more notable and controversial decisions. But today we're traveling back to where it all started; the day Judge Landis officially becomes Commissioner Landis.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 20, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1947. Today we're in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the sad news is filtering out that Josh Gibson, the greatest player the Negro Leagues has ever seen, and widely considered the greatest ballplayer most in and around the game have ever seen, has died at the age of 35.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 19, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1932. We're again visiting our favorite Commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Today, as we congratulate Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez on their selection to the Hall of Fame, we travel back to examine the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose pure baseball ability was more than sufficient to earn him a spot in the Hall, but whose off-the-field mistakes have almost certainly ensured that he will never be enshrined in Cooperstown.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 15, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1942. We're once again heading back to World War II-era baseball and on this trip we'll get a little more background that led up to some of our previous travels. Today we're once again back in the office of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, where he will discover what the war means for baseball, and perhaps more importantly, what baseball means for the war.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 14, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1976. Today we're taking our baseball time machine to Atlanta, where we'll see an enthusiastic Ted Turner announce that he's purchased the struggling Braves, a move that will usher in a generation of on-field success and a national broadcasting revolution.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 13, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1958. Today we're going back to a couple simultaneous turning points for professional baseball; the emergence of national television broadcasts, which opened new doors and revenue streams for Major League teams, and what many at the time believed to be the death knell for the minor league system. We'll join the minor league owners and a congressman fighting on their behalf to curtail the power of MLB's unwritten anti-trust exemption, and, spoiler alert: we'll lose.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 12, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1988. It's election season, baseball time travelers: Hall of Fame election season. And today we are traveling back to the close of this year's balloting, where the final numbers will provide overwhelming joy for one man, and heartbreak for another.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 11, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1973. We're in Chicago and I've brought you all here today to sit through a seven-hour Owner's Meeting. But don't worry, listeners, because by the end of the day the American League will have adopted a new rule that will remain the subject of fierce debate over 40 years later. Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 10, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1983. Today we're in the front of the New York Supreme Court as it listens to arguments from the City of New York and the New York Yankees, and makes a decision that will affect the most sacred of holidays: Opening Day of Major League Baseball.     Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 9, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1952. Today we and baseball fans everywhere will realize that the wartime era that seemingly ended with the close of World War II was merely in a short respite before igniting again with a new foe. Because today, just as in World War II, Ted Williams and many of his fellow ballplayers will again be recalled into active service.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 8, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1990. Today we'll open a copy of the New York Times and read an obituary a man named John Sylvester, and in the process we'll see how a baseball legend is born, and then embellished by an overzealous press eager to cater to a hyper-sentimental baseball-loving public.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 7, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 2005. Today we're hanging out in the office of Red Sox owner John Henry, where he will make a phone call to former Red Sox first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz and request that Mientkiewicz return a baseball with a whole lot of sentimental value, which now happens to be sitting in a safe-deposit box in Florida.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports

Today is January 6, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1964. We're in Kansas City, where the news is abuzz with the announcement that Athletics owner Charlie Finley has come to an agreement with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and will be moving the team east for the start of the 1964 season. Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports  

Today is January 5, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1920. Today we're taking our baseball time machine to Boston, to the Carney Building, where this afternoon Red Sox owner Harry Frazee will officially announce that the destitute Red Sox have sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.   Facebook: https://facebook.com/BOTDpodcast Twitter: @botdpodcast Email: botdpodcast@gmail.com Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-on-this-date/id1139821561?mt=2 Subscribe on Overcast! https://overcast.fm/itunes1139821561/baseball-on-this-date Subscribe on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robbie-clark/baseball-on-this-date?refid=stpr   Keywords: mlb, baseball, history, sports