May 16, 2022
"Dave Bancroft should not be
in the Hall of Fame."
That's how this week's guest Tom
Alesia's new book "Beauty at
Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild
Times in Baseball's First Century" starts - a curious way
to begin the first (and only) biography of one of Cooperstown's
most...
May 9, 2022
We revisit the endlessly
fascinating World Football League - and its enigmatic founder/first
commissioner Gary Davidson - with ESPN.com senior writer Ryan
Hockensmith ("The Renegade Who
Took On the NFL [And the NBA and the NHL]").
Drawing on recent interviews
with Davidson, former NFL defectors Larry Csonka &...
May 2, 2022
Hollywood film producer
(Ray; The Game
of Their Lives; Sudden Death) and original New
England/Hartford Whalers founder/owner Howard
Baldwin (Slim and
None: My Wild Ride from the WHA to the NHL and All the Way to
Hollywood) returns after a three-year absence to help fill
in some of the gaps left over from
Episode 100,...
Apr 25, 2022
With the rebooted (though still
potentially trademark-infringing) USFL now in full swing, we take a
look back at one of the clubs from the original version that didn't
make the cut this time around - the Washington Federals.
Washington Post sports
reporter Jake Russell ("As
the USFL Restarts, A Look Back at the...
Apr 18, 2022
It's the 60th year of New York
Mets baseball, and we celebrate this week with a look back at the
transformational multipurpose facility they called home for 45
seasons - including three of the club's four NL pennants and its
only two World Series championships - Shea Stadium.
Matthew Silverman (Shea Stadium...