The Infinite Inning 082: Who Mourns for the Nightlife in Babylon?

TABLE OF CONTENTS You Too Can Have a Duck for a General Manager*I Learned the Truth from Rickey Henderson*Lincoln Mitchell: Baseball and Politics/Your Wife and Your Mistress*Reframing the Dodgers-Giants Move as a Good Thing*Who Mourns for the Nightlife in Babylon?*Yankees Fans Kept Going to the Games*What If One NL Team Had Stayed?*“Sitsee”*The Least Significant Victim of Fascist Aggression*Decentralized Early Major League Baseball*Why Didn’t the Pacific Coast League Become a Third Major League?*If the Dodgers and Giants Had Stayed, When Would Baseball Have Caught Up to the Country?*The Stay-the-Course (But Still Racist) MacPhail Argument Against Integration*Felipe Alou for the Hall of Fame*Is There A Realignment Opportunity in 2018?*Theories of Entropy in Major League Baseball and the United States of America*Did Democracy Fail the Dodgers in New York City?*Putin and Bill Buckner*Goodbyes. THE INFINITE INNING ARCHIVE: All episodes available, popcorn extra. THE INFINITE INNING FACEBOOK GROUP: Socialize with like-minded people! The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?