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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!
Podcasting since 2026 • 18 episodes
Fungos & Fastballs: Baseball History & Trivia
Latest Episodes
E17: The Polo Grounds Shaped History & Rally Monkey!!
A rally monkey that only appears under strict rules, a capuchin celebrity from Friends, and fans waving stuffed primates like it’s a sacred rite. That’s where we start, because baseball’s superstitions aren’t just funny, they reveal how the spo...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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27:50
E16: MLB Mascots & The 2026 Season So Far
Jerry’s new Mariner Moose plush turns into a full blown tour through the strangest and most lovable corner of baseball culture: MLB mascots. We dig into why mascots work, why a few teams still refuse to have one, and what separates “cute” from ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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33:58
E14: Ball Four Book Review And The Seattle Pilots, The One-Year Team
The fastest way to puncture a sports myth is to show the day-to-day life behind it and Jim Bouton did exactly that with Ball Four. We start with a quick detour into Jerry’s battered tennis hand, then get serious about why this 1970 baseball boo...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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28:13
E13: Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey & Mendoza Line Explained
One bad idea can become baseball history, and sometimes it takes the form of a crate full of disco records wired to explode in center field. We go from a quick, colorful detour on the Mendoza Line (baseball’s infamous .200 batting average bench...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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21:34
