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...
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We are Indy and Berns
I’m Indy Neidell, a historian with a lifelong fascination for baseball’s past. I created Baseball History Time Machine to explore the stories behind the stats, the forgotten players, the strange records, and the moments that shaped the National Pastime.
Alongside my friend Berns, I approach baseball history with curiosity, patience, and a willingness to follow the story wherever it leads.
A weekly journey through the corners of baseball history
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...
S1E25: The Three Heinies!!!
Here's something of a holiday special for you all- a stand alone episode on 'the Three Heinies', the greates...
S1E24: The Emery Ball, Part 2- the best pitch ever.
Today Indy and Berns finish off their two part coverage of the Emery Ball with a deep dive into the careers ...
S1E23: The Emery Ball
This week we get into how the emery ball, the most devastating pitch of them all, was revealed to the genera...
S1E22: Ted Lyons and the Complete Games Thing
Today, Indy and Berns talk about a couple of mind boggling 20th century complete games record, and Indy spen...
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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.
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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