Infinite Inning 364: The Pitcher Who Didn’t Duck and the Artist Who Was a Hypocrite

About this episode

The episode explores a pitcher who faced injury without flinching and a cartoonist who hypocritically discussed divorce while experiencing it himself, amidst news of war.

This week, a light-hearted tale of a pitcher who braved the injury nexus in a body that just refused to flinch when under hostile fire, preceded by the story of a favorite cartoonist who pontificated on the subject of children and divorce even as he proceeded to get divorced and abandon his children. And in between, unwelcome news of war. The Infinite Inning is a journey to the past to understand the present using baseball as our time machine. America's brighter mirror, baseball reflects, anticipates, and even mocks the stories we tell ourselves about our world today. Baseball Prospectus's Steven Goldman shares his obsessions: history from inside and outside of the game, politics, stats, and Casey Stengel quotations. Along the way, we'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?

People in this episode

Host: Steven Goldman

Topics covered

• baseball
• history
• politics
• divorce
• injury
• storytelling

Keywords

• baseball
• pitcher
• cartoonist
• divorce
• war
• history
• politics

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