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Cheapseat Baseball

Welcome to Cheapseat Baseball, a weekly baseball history podcast from two friends who had the completely original idea of starting a podcast.  We dive into the great teams, great players and great stories... as well as some not so great ones.

Jun 30, 2021

Sorry to be late to post this week's episode.  This week we examine the only baseball team so far to bring a World Championship to the great city of Milwaukee -- the 1957 Braves.  We draw their history starting in Boston, do a deep dive on their magical 1957 run -- powered by Hall of Famers Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews...


Jun 21, 2021

Setting what's likely to be a longstanding record for longest episode title, the AAGPBL was a short-lived but significant baseball league featuring women players which started during WWII and survived into the 1950s. Perhaps most famously remembered by the Penny Marshall film A League of Their Own, Josh dives...


Jun 14, 2021

This is perhaps the most important work of Tom's life. Digging into the truth behind the legendary Pine Tar Game. This game is best known for George Brett's absolute meltdown after getting called out for excessive use of pine tar on the bat after hitting a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning against their rival, the...


Jun 7, 2021

This week Josh tells Tom about the career of the legendary Ichiro Suzuki, from the start of his career in Japan and his time in MLB with our typical digressions along the way (including Todd Marinovich, Kansas City in August, and Rob Dibble literally showing his backside). We also butcher a bunch of non-English words...