Baseball History Archives – Running the Bases

Baseball in Limbo, Goodbye Mr. Tiger (4/28/20) – Podcast

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Tucker is joined by Coach via phone for the first Coronavirus podcast for RTB. Out of the Box, Coach and Tucker discuss MLB’s different strategies to try and have a 2020 baseball season (3:12). The CPBL in Taiwan offers a baseball fix to the masses with a bizarre new approach (20:26), what permanent changes to MLB will result from COVID-19 (42:12), and what gets lost in a lost season (51:23). Coming into Home, remembering the great Al Kaline, “Mr Tiger” and one of the great elder statesmen of baseball (54:58).

Top 20 (or so) Most Significant Between the Lines (2/28/18) – Podcast

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Coach and Tucker debate the 20 “Most Significant” baseball persons to put on a uniform and step between the lines, based on criteria of performance, innovation, character, and importance to the game of baseball. Much love for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum inductees for 2018, and complete disdain for “Blooper”. Editor Note: In the weeks since recording, the list has been altered about 700 times…

Podcast available for download on SoundCloud and on iTunes.

Top 20 MLB Moments – Podcast (1/10/18)

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RTB is Back! First Podcast of 2018, Coach and Tucker debate the 20 most significant moments through the history of Major League Baseball. From Jackie in ’47 (2:05), the invention of the curveball (6:15), the 1994 strike (17:55), through the significance of baseball in war-time (33:53), Coach and Tucker present the moments that forever changed the course of “Our Great Game”, for better or worse.