Mar 27, 2023
It's more
International Hockey League (1945-2001) memories this week as
Episode 181 guest Eric Weltner returns for a look back at one
of minor league hockey's most dominant, yet curiously ephemeral
franchises - the Cincinnati Mohawks (1952-58).
Not to be
confused with the middling AHL team of the same name that...
Mar 20, 2023
In 1991,
twenty-something baseball fanatics Bill Craib and Sue Easler did
something no one else had ever done before - they went to a game at
all 178 major and minor league baseball parks in one season.
Craib and
Easler drove nearly 54,000 miles and shot home-movie-style video
(remember VHS?) at each stop - selected...
Mar 13, 2023
It's an early Spring Break hiatus for us this week - but not before sitting down for a very fun interview with CFL America blog/podcast publisher and friend-of-the-show Greg James - as a guest on his popular Sports History Network podcast "From the 55 Yard Line."
Tim and Greg go deep into the origin story of Good...
Mar 6, 2023
We head West this week to pay a
visit to the "California Sports Guy" Dan Cisco ("California Sports Astounding: Fun,
Unknown, and Surprising Facts from Statehood to Sunday"),
and stir up a rich bouillabaisse of little-known factoids about
defunct, previously domiciled and otherwise forgotten teams and
leagues who once...