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True Tales from the Big Leagues

True Tales from the Big Leagues

De : Martin Coleman
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As a kid, I fell asleep with a transistor radio tuned to Oakland A’s baseball games almost 2,800 miles away.


Listening to those games that originated from what might as well have been the moon for a kid in South Carolina fascinated me.


It was a time when information was garnered from the back of baseball cards bought from the 7-11 with every penny of my allowance.


I still have thousands of those cards that my son and I occasionally reference.


The images on those cards are often hilarious, but the information on the back was the gold.


Far-off birthplaces, remote minor league cities I’d never heard of and quirky statistics or oddities about the player were for me like being an archaeologist and discovering an unknown sarcophagus of an Egyptian King.


I was on a hunt for the unusual and unexpected and I’ve been hooked on the weird and unusual in baseball ever since.


My son and I bonded over baseball, but more than that, we’ve bonded over the weirdness of baseball…the player that hit .247 for four consecutive years, the 11-walk complete game debut, or the pitcher that won 108 games in 2 seasons...


Today we find these stories online and we share our discoveries with each other…it’s almost become a friendly competition to one-up each other…And now we want to share our stories with you.


They’re silly, fascinating, weird, quirky and a lot of times unbelievable…


…these are True Tales of the Big Leagues..



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    • E14: The 1871 Chicago White Stockings and Guy Hecker

      E14: The 1871 Chicago White Stockings and Guy Hecker
      Sep 11 2024

      The guys go old school this week as they look back at the 1800s to find some true tales of the big leagues.


      Parker regales us with some of the crazy rules from the early days of baseball, which helps explain the wild scores and then he tells us about the 1871 Chicago White Stockings.


      Marty then shares the story of Guy Hecker, who would "unfortunately" win 50 games in one season, but was the Shohei Ohtani of his time (except he played first base when not pitching).


      Sources:

      Guy Hecker

      1871 Chicago White Stockings


      True Tales of the Big Leagues is a Seldom Used Reserve Podcast and is narrated by Marty Coleman and Parker Coleman.


      Co-executive producers are Parker Coleman and Marty Coleman.

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      33 min
    • E13: One Hit Wonders Part 3

      E13: One Hit Wonders Part 3
      Aug 28 2024

      Parker and Marty are back for the the third and final round of players who had one great season and then disappeared.

      We chose the players independently and in different fashions.

      Parker chose a player that debuted near when Marty was born and Marty accidentally chose another player from the 1980 Indians.


      Sources:

      Baseball-Reference.com - Joe Charbonneau

      Baseball-Reference.com - Ken Harrelson


      True Tales of the Big Leagues is a Seldom Used Reserve Podcast and is narrated by Marty Coleman and Parker Coleman.


      Co-executive producers are Parker Coleman and Marty Coleman.

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      21 min
    • E12: One Hit Wonders Part 2

      E12: One Hit Wonders Part 2
      Aug 14 2024

      Parker and Marty are back for the second round of players who had one great season and then disappeared.

      We chose the players independently and in different fashions.

      Interestingly enough, Parker chose a player from long before he was born and Marty chose a player from his childhood that he saw play in person many times.


      Sources:

      Baseball-Reference.com - Miguel Dilone

      Baseball-Reference.com - Jim Finigan


      True Tales of the Big Leagues is a Seldom Used Reserve Podcast and is narrated by Marty Coleman and Parker Coleman.


      Co-executive producers are Parker Coleman and Marty Coleman.

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      18 min
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