Jun 19, 2023
El Paso Chihuahuas Triple-A
baseball play-by-play broadcaster Tim Hagerty ("Root
for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team
Names and the Stories Behind Them" and "Tales
from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous, Inspirational and Wild Anecdotes
from Minor League Baseball") joins the show this
week to spotlight some of the most memorable names and events in
"forgotten" minor league history.
When Hagerty isn't calling games
for the San Diego Padres top minor league affiliate, he can usually
be found digging deep down a variety of research rabbit holes, in a
never-ending quest to refine his encyclopedic "double-asterisk"
knowledge of baseball factoids and historical lore.
For us, it's a callback to minor-league teams of yore like the: Tucson Toros, Huntsville Stars, Mobile (AL) BayBears, Portland Beavers, Hutchinson Salt Packers, Ilion (NY) Typewriters, Montpelier (VT) Goldfish, Kalamazoo Celery Pickers, Saskatoon Berrypickers, Greenville (MS) Cotton Pickers, Porterville (CA) Orange Pickers, New Orleans Baby Cakes, New Orleans Pelicans, Midland (TX) Cubs, Texarkana (TX & AR!) Casket Makers, Agua Prieta (Sonora, MX & Douglas, AZ!) Charros, Corsicana (TX) Oil Citys, Bluefield (WV) Blue Jays, Princeton (WV) Rays, and Pittsfield (MA) Astros - among others.
And, of course, we get Hagerty's take on the current state of MiLB, now that Major League Baseball is fully in charge - and where it's likely headed in the years to come.
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