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094: Major League Baseball’s Seattle Pilots – With Bill Mullins
094: Major League Baseball’s Seattle Pilots – With Bill Mullins
We kick off the New Year with our first-ever discussion about one of Major League Baseball’s most enduring enigmas – the... Read more
7 Jan 2019
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1hr 39mins
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118: The Continental Basketball Association – With David Levine
118: The Continental Basketball Association – With David Levine
Author and former SPORT magazine writer David Levine (Life on the Rim: A Year in the Continental Basketball Association)... Read more
24 Jun 2019
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1hr 36mins
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051: The Wild & Wacky World Football League with Author Mark Speck
051: The Wild & Wacky World Football League with Author Mark Speck
Perhaps no defunct league in modern-day professional sports history endured a more ignominious storyline and spectacular... Read more
5 Mar 2018
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1hr 31mins
Ranked #4
078: The United States Football League – With Jeff Pearlman
078: The United States Football League – With Jeff Pearlman
Multiple New York Times bestselling sports book author Jeff Pearlman (Gunslinger; Boys Will Be Boys; The Bad Guys Won!; ... Read more
10 Sep 2018
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #5
060: Baseball’s League That Never Was: The Continental League with Professor Russ Buhite
060: Baseball’s League That Never Was: The Continental League with Professor Russ Buhite
By the summer of 1959, the absence of two former National League franchises from what was once a vibrant New York City m... Read more
7 May 2018
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1hr 22mins
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037: The NHL’s California Golden Seals with Author Steve Currier
037: The NHL’s California Golden Seals with Author Steve Currier
Ice hockey makes its long-awaited return to the podcast, as host Tim Hanlon revisits the legendarily forlorn California ... Read more
20 Nov 2017
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1hr 35mins
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006: Columnist Paul Gardner & the Original North American Soccer League
006: Columnist Paul Gardner & the Original North American Soccer League
Legendary Soccer America columnist Paul Gardner (The Simplest Game: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to the World of Soccer; ... Read more
10 Apr 2017
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1hr 33mins
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086: The Battle for Dallas: The AFL Texans vs. The NFL Cowboys – With John Eisenberg
086: The Battle for Dallas: The AFL Texans vs. The NFL Cowboys – With John Eisenberg
By the end of the 1958 NFL season – one punctuated by an iconic, nationally televised “Greatest Game Ever Played” champi... Read more
5 Nov 2018
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1hr 26mins
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043: Arena Football League Founder Jim Foster
043: Arena Football League Founder Jim Foster
As the new year beckons, the fate of the Arena Football League – one of America’s most innovative modern-day professiona... Read more
8 Jan 2018
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2hr 18mins
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032: Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Braves with Documentarian/Writer Bill Povletich
032: Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Braves with Documentarian/Writer Bill Povletich
The lineage behind what is today’s Atlanta Braves is one of the longest, deepest and most uniquely enduring in all of pr... Read more
16 Oct 2017
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1hr 22mins
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065: The CFL’s American Expansion Experiment with Sportswriter Ed Willes
065: The CFL’s American Expansion Experiment with Sportswriter Ed Willes
As Johnny Manziel’s pro football comeback journey wraps up a promising pre-season with the Canadian Football League’s Ha... Read more
11 Jun 2018
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1hr 58mins
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028: Women’s Pro Basketball’s “Machine Gun” Molly Kazmer
028: Women’s Pro Basketball’s “Machine Gun” Molly Kazmer
The history of women’s professional basketball in the US pre-dates the modern-day WNBA by at least two decades, when inv... Read more
18 Sep 2017
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1hr 21mins
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003: Author Michael MacCambridge on Lamar Hunt & the American Football League
003: Author Michael MacCambridge on Lamar Hunt & the American Football League
Sports author/historian Michael MacCambridge (America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation; Lama... Read more
20 Mar 2017
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1hr 20mins
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069: The “Rebel” World Hockey Association with Ed Willes
069: The “Rebel” World Hockey Association with Ed Willes
Fresh off of kicking pro basketball’s establishment in the teeth with the launch of the upstart American Basketball Asso... Read more
9 Jul 2018
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1hr 34mins
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139: The NHL’s Kansas City Scouts – With Troy Treasure
139: The NHL’s Kansas City Scouts – With Troy Treasure
Veteran Missouri-area sportswriter Troy Treasure (Icing on the Plains: The Rough Ride of Kansas City’s NHL Scouts) joins... Read more
18 Nov 2019
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1hr 23mins
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026: The TVS Television Network with Producer/Director Howard Zuckerman
026: The TVS Television Network with Producer/Director Howard Zuckerman
On January 20, 1968, a frenzied crowd of 52,693 packed the Houston Astrodome to witness the #2-ranked University of Hous... Read more
4 Sep 2017
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1hr 17mins
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089: The NBA Buffalo Braves – With Tim Wendel
089: The NBA Buffalo Braves – With Tim Wendel
The Buffalo Braves were one of three NBA expansion franchises (along with the Portland Trail Blazers and Cleveland Caval... Read more
26 Nov 2018
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1hr 32mins
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025: Early Pro Football’s Memphis Tigers with Author Wylie McLallen
025: Early Pro Football’s Memphis Tigers with Author Wylie McLallen
The Memphis Tigers professional football team of the late 1920s and early 1930s never played a down in the National Foot... Read more
28 Aug 2017
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #19
030: The Senior Professional Baseball Association with Author David Whitford
030: The Senior Professional Baseball Association with Author David Whitford
Inc. Editor-at-Large David Whitford (Extra Innings: A Season in the Senior League) joins host Tim Hanlon to retrace his ... Read more
2 Oct 2017
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #20
098: The Original XFL – With Brett Forrest
098: The Original XFL – With Brett Forrest
As another NFL season closes, we shift gears toward the forthcoming Alliance of American Football – the first of two new... Read more
4 Feb 2019
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1hr 29mins