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Fungos & Fastballs: Baseball History & Trivia
Join us on this podcast exploring baseball's history and lore, plus enjoy some fastball trivia all in under 30 minutes. Topics will be all over the place - players, traditions, baseball lingo, stadiums, baseball movies/books. Like you, we just want to talk baseball!
Fungos & Fastballs: Baseball History & Trivia
Latest Episodes
E45: Spahn, Marichal and the Greatest Game Pitched & Baseball Musicals
A Jackie Robinson musical with songs about out-of-shape spring training? A Bull Durham stage adaptation that got called a bunt? Before we get anywhere near the mound, we’re having a little fun with the fact that baseball somehow finds its way i...
E44: Ruth, Aaron, Bonds and…Roger Connor? The Career Home Run Record & The Two-Strike Bunt
A single foul bunt can flip a game, a fantasy matchup, and your mood, and it all traces back to baseball’s earliest arguments about pace, fairness, and what counts as a strike. We start with the surprisingly sharp “foul bunt with two strikes” r...
E43: Should Have Won? How The 2001 Diamondbacks Stunned The Yankees Dynasty
One inning from a fifth championship in six years, the 2001 Yankees watch the unthinkable happen and it still stings. We dig into the World Series that felt prewritten for a New York dynasty, then swerved hard when the Arizona Diamondbacks refu...
E42: Wacky Baseball: Strange Tales of Lightning Strikes, Sausage Races & “The Bird” Mark Fidrych
A lightning bolt knocks a pitcher unconscious and he still demands the final out. A Hall of Fame manager argues in a downpour while holding an umbrella and gets tossed on the spot. A big leaguer takes a swing at a racing sausage mascot and it s...
E41: Sliding Billy Hamilton, Hall of Fame Speedster + 2026 MLB Update & What Makes a Save
The standings say one thing, the vibes say another. We start by going round the horn with our friend Edwin Nolan for a rapid-fire MLB update as of August 30, 2026, sizing up who looks real, who looks shaky, and which races might go down to the ...
