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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.

Apr 30, 2022

We should probably apologize for the sheer amount of dick jokes at the top of this episode. You see, we're talking about Merkle's Boner -- boner in this instance being an old-timey word for blunder or mistake. That said, this was a major early incident in baseball history. It turns out that it's not exactly clear what...


Apr 28, 2022

This is without question the most important episode we've done yet. Tom revisits the Kansas City Royals and tells Josh about their momentous 1985 season.  After nearly a decade of excellence that saw them repeatedly falling short, they finally broke through in 85, taking on an up and coming Blue Jays team in the ALCS...


Apr 21, 2022

Josh takes Tom to our great neighbor to the north, Canada, to tell us about the 1992 Toronto Blue Jays.  We talk Gerry Ford, Exhibition Stadium, Letterkenny, and the Blue Jays' run of futility starting in the mid-80's and how it all came together for a magical run in 1992.  Come join us!


Apr 8, 2022

After moving up our four-part series on the MLBPA and labor relations... we kick off the episode by talking about a triumph of the Kansas City Chiefs and the imminent retirement of Tom Brady?  Yeah, we recorded this one a while ago folks...

After repeated losses in our WhatIf sports simulator, Josh finally bit the...