In the conclusion of our deep-dive into a rare baseball forfeit in 1949, an outraged crowd unleashes a veritable grocery store on three stoic umpires.
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Episode Highlights:
- The fiercest wolves in baseball
- The difference between cute projectiles and ugly projectiles
- One fan, one hundred glass bottles thrown
- Ted gives this week’s baseball poetry reading
- A forfeit swaps one kind of Phillies loss for another
- The unsportsmanship of the malletheads
- A mysterious orange mixture and ballpark concessions in the late 1940s
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Original Research and Writing: Paul Jackson
Production and Music: Ted Walker
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