S2E4: Sluggers of the 1970s, Part 5
Another installment of the 1970s Sluggers mini series for you, kicking off with a long look at Jeff Burrough...
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Indy Neidell is pretty famous as a military historian, but baseball history is and has always been his great love. He started the Baseball History Time Machine in March 2025 together with his baseball-crazy South African pal, Berns. Every other Sunday they explore the stories behind the stats, the forgotten players, the strange records, and the moments that shaped the National Pastime.
Each episode has a theme, but Berns' curiosity and questions lead Indy time and again down sidetrack rabbit holes where his encyclopedic knowledge of the sport shine the spotlight on the people, the places, and the events in baseball history that rarely- if ever- get covered with the depth and the passion that they do on the Baseball History Time Machine.
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S2E3: The Rogers Hornsby Thing, Finally! (This time for real)
After sidetracking on everything under the sun the past two episodes, Indy finally tells us the incredible t...
S2E2: The Rogers Hornsby Thing
There's something that Rogers Hornsby did NOT do that Indy was supposed to talk about in the first episode o...
S2E1: Season Two Opening Day- The Perfect Episode!
Indy and Berns kick off Season 2 of this weirdness in top Time Machine form: Indy sets the scene for what th...
S1E31: Sluggers of the 1970s, Part 4
Indy and Berns get back to the Sluggers of the 1970s Mini Series, today covering a pair of early 70s White S...
S1E30: Maz and the Cenennarians
Just after the last episode was recorded- which was about the death of former Pirate star Roy Face- another ...
S1E29: Indy Hijacks the Episode- an Homage to Roy Face
Instead of continuing the sluggers of the 1970s mini series, Indy and Berns spend the episode talking about ...
S1E28: Sluggers of the 1970s Part 3
We continue this fabulous 70s sluggers mini-series, this week talking about the first team to ever have thre...
S1E27: Sluggers of the 1970s Part 2
This 70s sluggers mini series continues, today featuring numbers 3, 4, and 5 on the most homers of the 1970...
S1E26: Sluggers of the 1970s Part 1
The response to our recent series 'Sluggers of the 1940s' was really positive, so here's the start of new Sl...
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This podcast lives in the space between the dates, the records, and the legends.
Baseball history is often flattened into milestones, firsts, and trivia. Dates are listed, names are remembered, and eras are reduced to a handful of familiar talking points. This show is built on the belief that the real story of baseball lives in the space between those summaries.
The Baseball History Time Machine treats the game as a continuous, human story. A sport shaped by people making decisions in specific moments, under specific pressures, with consequences that were rarely obvious at the time.
Rules change for reasons. Records emerge from context. Dynasties rise because something else was breaking underneath. Even the strangest detours, the failed leagues, forgotten players, and short-lived ideas, often tell us more about baseball than the moments that made it into the textbooks.
Episodes are allowed to breathe. Conversations follow curiosity wherever it leads, whether that means digging into a stat that refuses to behave, unpacking a personality that does not fit the legend built around them, or zooming out to understand how culture, economics, and society quietly shaped the game on the field.
Sometimes the story moves forward. Sometimes it loops back. Sometimes it pauses on a single season, a single player, or a single decision that ended up mattering far more than anyone realized at the time.
This podcast is made for listeners who enjoy that kind of exploration. People who do not mind staying with a story a little longer, who appreciate nuance over neat conclusions, and who find joy in discovering that the game they love is richer, stranger, and more interconnected than it first appears.
If baseball history feels alive to you, not finished, not settled, this is where you’ll feel at home.
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