About this episode
Cliff Corcoran returns to discuss actual baseball, plus tales of pandemics past, vanished players, and cheering home runs through the valley of death, 1945.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Seventy-Five Years of Home Runs and Questions*Shad Rhem*Cliff Corcoran: Branded Masks*First Baseman-Leadoff Hitters*Cubs 2020 Lineup*Slow Leadoff Men (Part 1000)*The Blue and the Gold of Milwaukee*Expansion is Contingent*The Brooklyn Super-Bus, Sour Cherry Jelly, and Aphasia*For the Love of Baseball Cutouts*One More Ride for the White Elephants/What’s an Athletic, Anyway?*A Dozen Relievers*The Season You Skip*Cubs Fever, Catch It*The Nationals Struggle Early*Causality Problems*A Very Brief Nod to the Marlins, Phillies, Cardinals, Et Al*Moral Hazard in Baseball Coverage*Goodbyes.
The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Seventy-Five Years of Home Runs and Questions*Shad Rhem*Cliff Corcoran: Branded Masks*First Baseman-Leadoff Hitters*Cubs 2020 Lineup*Slow Leadoff Men (Part 1000)*The Blue and the Gold of Milwaukee*Expansion is Contingent*The Brooklyn Super-Bus, Sour Cherry Jelly, and Aphasia*For the Love of Baseball Cutouts*One More Ride for the White Elephants/What’s an Athletic, Anyway?*A Dozen Relievers*The Season You Skip*Cubs Fever, Catch It*The Nationals Struggle Early*Causality Problems*A Very Brief Nod to the Marlins, Phillies, Cardinals, Et Al*Moral Hazard in Baseball Coverage*Goodbyes.
The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?
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