S2E12: Still More Tragic Tales... and the 1920 World Series
What do we get today? We get Chick Stahl, the 1920 World Series, a sidetrack about mayonnaise, single season...
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We are Indy and Berns
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.
A journey through the corners of baseball history every other Sunday
S2E11: More Tragic Tales (and more long sidetracks)
Today we continue telling tragic baseball tales with perhaps the most famous one- the death of Ray Chapman, but...
S2E10: Tragic Tales
A couple of tragic baseball deaths today for you, and the full story of Jim Creighton's rise to stardom and what he...
An August Announcement
A brief update on what we've been up to lately. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...
S2E9: The 19 K Club Part 4
We continue the mini series of pitchers who've struck out 19 or more hitters in a single game with Steve Carlton...
S2E8: Haddix, Shore, and an Unanticipated Homage to Luis Tiant
This week begins as another installment of the '19 K Club' series, but soon sidetracks into Ernie Shore's...
Today's episode is delayed until Tuesday (I hope). Apologies
Because of summer vacations and being in and out of town, Berns and I have not yet been able to record today's...
S2E7: The 19 K Club, Part 3
This excellent mini series continues, covering two more pitchers who struck out 19 or more players in a single major...
S2E6: The 19 K Club, Part 2
The second in the mini series covering those players in MLB History who have struck out 19 or more batters in one...
Summer 2026 Announcement
Because of illness and daily life just getting a little overwhelming, we unfortunately can't release an episode...
Baseball is bigger than milestones
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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