Infinite Inning 219: The Ballad of Red-Butt Harry

Cliff Corcoran returns to dissect all the moves of March, plus tales: Gender uncertainty on a barnstorming team, a rowdy crowd in Chicago is given way too much leeway to attack a player, and the odd career of the pitcher who began the ruckus. TABLE OF CONTENTS Vaccines and Bloomer Girls*A Quick Note on Bleeding Dodger Blue*Your Spirit Ballplayer 1.0*Don Buford and Bart Johnson: The Ballad of Red-Butt Harry*Cliff Corcoran: We Have Baseball Now*Everyone but Michael Conforto*Rooting for Tyler Clippard and Other Elder Relievers*Rangers, Mets, and Twins*Pham?*The Yankees Skip Shortstoppalooza*Valuing Isiah Kiner-Falefa*The DJ LeMahieu Problem*Eugenio Suarez’s Last Month and the Reds-Mariners Deal*A Debate About Jesse Winker*Is There a Shortage of Center Fielders? Starring the Phillies*Should Brian Reynolds and Cedric Mullins be Traded?*Goodbyes. 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?