by Mike Bates and Bill Parker
This Week In Baseball History is a weekly podcast devoted to the history of baseball, hosted by Mike Bates and Bill Parker, the co-founders of The Platoon Advantage and writers on many fine websites.
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April 18, 2025
Mike and Bill examine Lee Smith's career, highlighting his record-breaking saves and transition from stopper to closer, while also celebrating birthdays of Kid Elberfeld and Hal Morris and remembering Scott Sauerbeck and Bobby Malkmus.
April 11, 2025
<p>The Joker famously believed that all it took to drive someone insane was one bad day. But Gordon didn't have to go through what MLB pitchers did 25 years ago this week, on April 7, 2000, when batters hit a combined 57 home runs around the league, setting a new record. Mike and Bill look back on this absolutely wild day and the players who made it so, finding significant milestones, the start and end of careers, and a whole lot of weirdness.</p> <p>Plus, happy birthday to Red Smith and Fred Frankhouse!</p> <p>And farewell to Eddie Fisher and Felipe Montemayor.</p>
April 4, 2025
<p>55 years ago this week, if the story is to be believed, a truck waited at a rest area in the middle of Utah, waiting to find out if it should travel west or east. In the balance hung the hopes of two cities that each wanted a big league baseball team. In Part 1 of a two part episode, Mike and Bill look at the troubled first year of the Seattle Pilots and the messy process that left them on the verge of moving to Milwaukee. Plus, happy birthday to Gary Pettis and Tommy Holmes!</p> <p>Part 2: Bud Selig and the Birth of the Brewers: <a href= "https://thisweekinbaseballhistory.libsyn.com/episode-195-bud-selig-and-the-birth-of-the-brewers-part-2"> https://thisweekinbaseballhistory.libsyn.com/episode-195-bud-selig-and-the-birth-of-the-brewers-part-2</a></p>
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