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March 4, 2022
Listen to Bernie Sanders and End the Bosses’ Baseball Lockout
This is not a strike. The corporate greed needs to stop.
Dave Zirin
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February 25, 2022
Lockouts, Strikeouts, and Baseball’s Missed Opportunity
Learning from the 1890 Players League.
Robert Ross
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February 1, 2022
Talking ’90s Knicks With Chris Herring
NBA scribe Chris Herring joins the show to talk about his book Blood in the Garden.
Dave Zirin
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January 28, 2022
Barry Bonds’s Hall of Fame Opponents Can’t Handle the Truth
A mess of hypocrisy and bias has kept history’s best hitter out of the Hall.
Dave Zirin
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December 8, 2021
What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift
Fandom has taken on the worst of the corrupted tribalism that has dominated so much of life outside the arena, the ballpark, and the stadium.
Robert Lipsyte
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November 1, 2021
Why You Should Root for Dusty Baker in This Year’s World Series
I know, the Houston Astros cheated. But then they hired the best man in baseball to help them find their way.
Joan Walsh
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August 31, 2021
On September 1, 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates Made Baseball History
There are many factors behind the “cleansing” of African Americans from a sport to which we were so essential for most of the 20th century.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
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August 27, 2021
The Ballplayer Who Fought for Free Agency
For his talents on the diamond and his determination off of it, Curt Flood deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Peter Dreier
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May 18, 2021
How a 1948 Baseball Team Explains the World
Author Luke Epplin joins the show to talk about his new book, Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball.
Dave Zirin
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May 6, 2021
Sports Unions Come Together to Fight for the PRO Act
The sports unions for basketball, baseball, football, and hockey have combined forces—and the labor movement is stronger for it.
Dave Zirin