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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
E27: Wade Boggs: Contact Hitting and Chicken; Plus The Longest Game and 2026 MLB Update
You can measure Wade Boggs with numbers, but you can’t really understand him without the stories. We start by checking the current MLB landscape with our friend Edwin Noland, moving division by division and hitting the surprises, the contenders...
E26: King Kelly, Baseball’s First Rock Star & The 1984 Bean Brawl
Seventeen ejections in one night should be impossible, yet baseball found a way. We start with the 1984 Braves Padres beanball brawl, where one hit-by-pitch spirals into pitcher retaliation, managers getting ejected, and a benches-clearing pile...
E25: Vintage Base Ball Brings The 19th Century Back To Life
Link to the National Assoc of Historic Base Ball Clubs Baseball changes completely when you strip away gloves, modern habits, and the assumptions we’ve all carried since Little League and it becomes...
Ep 24: Kitchen Sink Episode: LOOGY Explained, The Kissing Bandit, Eephus (film), & '70 East West Classic,
A single baseball episode can feel like four different road trips, and that’s exactly the point here. We’re clearing out a backlog of “first pitches” with a grab bag of baseball history, MLB trivia, and the kind of oddball stories you only hear...
E23: Talkin’ Ryno: Ryne Sandberg - Heart of the Chicago Cubs
A Cubs legend doesn’t have to be loud to be unforgettable, and Ryne Sandberg is the proof. We sit down with longtime friend and die-hard Cubs fan James Maumus to trace how a kid in New Orleans became devoted to Chicago baseball thanks to cable ...
