The Infinite Inning #031: The Highest Form Of Baseball Fandom

Steve is joined by Stacey May Fowles, novelist, essayist, and author of Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me for a discussion of finding the calm center that lurks behind the turbulent veneer of Toronto Blue Jays fandom. Plus: Dark mutterings on Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers and a warm memory of Yankees great Bobby Murcer.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Tinker to Evers to I Don’t Love You Anymore*Saved at the Ballpark by Bobby Murcer*Stacey May Fowles: A Canadian Thanksgiving*All the battles we lost to Canadians*The relevance and irrelevance of the Toronto Blue Jays*Loving the Game that Saved Me*Pitchers and catchers and scaffolding*Coping with the 2017 Blue Jays*The Highest Form of Being a Baseball Fan*Farewell to Jose Bautista*The Bat-Flip Moment*Baseball assimilation stories*Dioner Navarro, gateway drug*A romantic gesture at old Yankee Stadium*Carlos Correa’s proposal*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?