Steven Goldman
@stevengoldman.bsky.social
Casey Stengel biographer. Shanty Hogan chronicler. Infinite Inning podcast host. Baseball Prospectus author and Consulting Editor. Collector of far too many books. | https://www.baseballprospectus.com/show/the-infinite-inning/
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Steven Goldman
@stevengoldman.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Infinite Inning Episode 306: A pitcher goes through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a catcher suffers, the William Tell Overture is played on the harmonica but no strikeouts are recorded, and somehow this tells us something about where to go from here. www.baseballprospectus.com/podcasts/inf...
Infinite Inning 306: The Pitcher Who Refused to Go Home | Baseball Prospectus
After the week we’ve had, we’re all once again in the Infinite Inning, but is there a way out? Follow along the winding path as a Yankees ace puts his head through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a...
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Hey! I'm Steve. My podcast is The Infinite Inning, which combines baseball, history, politics, and culture. My books are Forging Genius, on the early career of Casey Stengel, and Baseball's Brief Lives, biographical essays. Between, there's been a whole lot of my beloved home, Baseball Prospectus.
Recently, I got a rejection from an agent. They said, "Love the idea, but I felt the writing wasn't good enough." If I ever get that sort of thing again, I'm going to say, "Are you kidding me? Have you seen the Nuzzi book?" I may not be Shakespeare, but if that's replacement level I'm well above.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Recently, I got a rejection from an agent. They said, "Love the idea, but I felt the writing wasn't good enough." If I ever get that sort of thing again, I'm going to say, "Are you kidding me? Have you seen the Nuzzi book?" I may not be Shakespeare, but if that's replacement level I'm well above.
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Can't wait to see this anti-cancel culture firebrand hosting 60 minutes
Breaking: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agreed to part ways after new revelations and allegations about an affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.
Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Can't wait to see this anti-cancel culture firebrand hosting 60 minutes
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BP360 is Live! | Baseball Prospectus
Baseball Prospectus' yearly promotion is back.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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If you like the stupid bit I do with my display name here's, perhaps, a bit of added incentive to pick up a BP360 subscription: I'll allow anyone who shows proof of BP360 purchase to submit a display name, and pick a winner at random bypassing the voting process. Winner gets a month, minimum.
the good news is the price change doesn't kick in until 1/1, and we're currently running our yearly promotion for a yearly sub, a copy of the Annual, and a t-shirt, so there literally isn't a better time to subscribe or extend a subscription with us:
BP360 is Live! | Baseball Prospectus
Baseball Prospectus' yearly promotion is back.
www.baseballprospectus.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you like the stupid bit I do with my display name here's, perhaps, a bit of added incentive to pick up a BP360 subscription: I'll allow anyone who shows proof of BP360 purchase to submit a display name, and pick a winner at random bypassing the voting process. Winner gets a month, minimum.
Indiana Jones didn't put himself through hell getting that thing out of the temple just for it to end up with Trump.
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Indiana Jones didn't put himself through hell getting that thing out of the temple just for it to end up with Trump.
A 2025 necrology, with morals. If I'm qualified to find morals. If morals are a thing in 2025. I'd like to hear your opinion of a question I struggle with herein: did you under/overachieve, or is what you did definitionally what you were capable of doing? Maybe potential just just someone's opinion.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A 2025 necrology, with morals. If I'm qualified to find morals. If morals are a thing in 2025. I'd like to hear your opinion of a question I struggle with herein: did you under/overachieve, or is what you did definitionally what you were capable of doing? Maybe potential just just someone's opinion.
A bit of a 2025 baseball necrology from me @baseballprospectus.com today. I tried to make it a little different for you. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Notes on the Fallen | Baseball Prospectus
An impressionistic, non-inclusive 2025 salute to those who have gone ahead of the rest of us.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A bit of a 2025 baseball necrology from me @baseballprospectus.com today. I tried to make it a little different for you. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Just happened across a version of the 1927 Vincent Youmans song "Sometimes I'm Happy" (same composer as "No, No, Nanette, Babe Ruth fans). It begins
Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm blue
My disposition depends on you
And I thought, "Too bad they didn't have a word for codependency back then."
Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm blue
My disposition depends on you
And I thought, "Too bad they didn't have a word for codependency back then."
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just happened across a version of the 1927 Vincent Youmans song "Sometimes I'm Happy" (same composer as "No, No, Nanette, Babe Ruth fans). It begins
Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm blue
My disposition depends on you
And I thought, "Too bad they didn't have a word for codependency back then."
Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm blue
My disposition depends on you
And I thought, "Too bad they didn't have a word for codependency back then."
My talented daughter has begun selling limited-edition prints for the first time. Some of you used to hear her on the podcast from time to time. Now she's an adult-type person. This is still weird to me, but also fun. www.etsy.com/shop/catfootprints/?etsrc=sdt
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My talented daughter has begun selling limited-edition prints for the first time. Some of you used to hear her on the podcast from time to time. Now she's an adult-type person. This is still weird to me, but also fun. www.etsy.com/shop/catfootprints/?etsrc=sdt
Snoopy.
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Which Fictional Character Would You Hate To See Go MAGA? | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Snoopy.
It may turn out to be spectacularly ironic that I wrote this piece today...
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It may turn out to be spectacularly ironic that I wrote this piece today...
I keep looking at this beautiful thing and thinking, "And how much of it was done by AI? Not a bloody jot. Everything that went to the printer was done by hand." (Gift link.)
Superman Comic Sets Auction Record, Selling for $9.12 Million
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November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I keep looking at this beautiful thing and thinking, "And how much of it was done by AI? Not a bloody jot. Everything that went to the printer was done by hand." (Gift link.)
Due to new regulations, CM Jr. is no longer allowed to "swat the swastika" if it happens to be seen on or around a Coast Guard vessel...
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Due to new regulations, CM Jr. is no longer allowed to "swat the swastika" if it happens to be seen on or around a Coast Guard vessel...
It turns out the dozens of Marvel Comics stories over the years in which Nazis like the Red Skull quietly insinuate themselves into the leadership because Americans would never just go Nazi on their own gave us way too much credit.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It turns out the dozens of Marvel Comics stories over the years in which Nazis like the Red Skull quietly insinuate themselves into the leadership because Americans would never just go Nazi on their own gave us way too much credit.
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
I love my hard-of-hearing podcast transcriptions. "He never walked anyone, led the league in Wauks for nine innings
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I love my hard-of-hearing podcast transcriptions. "He never walked anyone, led the league in Wauks for nine innings
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
"The heart wants what it wants," someone once says to me right before they signed Josh Naylor to a five-year contract.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"The heart wants what it wants," someone once says to me right before they signed Josh Naylor to a five-year contract.
In which two Giants get banned for the dumbest, most obvious, clearly illegal post-1919 attempt to bribe an opponent.
The Dumbest One ‘Til Now: Two Goats and a Horsehide Hamlet
by Steven Goldman (@stevengoldman.bsky.social)
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by Steven Goldman (@stevengoldman.bsky.social)
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The Dumbest One 'Til Now: Two Goats and a Horsehide Hamlet | Baseball Prospectus
With Emmanuel Clase out of the country and seemingly unlikely to return, we may never know what motivated him to participate in an alleged scheme to sell off over 100 individual pitches to gamblers,…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In which two Giants get banned for the dumbest, most obvious, clearly illegal post-1919 attempt to bribe an opponent.
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I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today's newsletter is free.
I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Over @baseballprospectus.com, where we have all the baseball coverage plus 37 flavors of ice cream, I wrote about one of the game's more inexplicable gambling scandals 'til this current one-the O'Connell/Dolan Affair. Give it a read, if you dare. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
The Dumbest One 'Til Now: Two Goats and a Horsehide Hamlet | Baseball Prospectus
With Emmanuel Clase out of the country and seemingly unlikely to return, we may never know what motivated him to participate in an alleged scheme to sell off over 100 individual pitches to gamblers, n...
www.baseballprospectus.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Over @baseballprospectus.com, where we have all the baseball coverage plus 37 flavors of ice cream, I wrote about one of the game's more inexplicable gambling scandals 'til this current one-the O'Connell/Dolan Affair. Give it a read, if you dare. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
From 1924. Specifics (a La Follette-looking guy trying to walk in TR's backwards shoes) aside, it's sorta depressing that putting on your shoes backwards and walking into yourself is the eternal story of liberalism in America sans some discrete periods like 1933-1937 or so.
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
From 1924. Specifics (a La Follette-looking guy trying to walk in TR's backwards shoes) aside, it's sorta depressing that putting on your shoes backwards and walking into yourself is the eternal story of liberalism in America sans some discrete periods like 1933-1937 or so.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Pundits scolding everyone mad at Chuck Schumer...
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pundits scolding everyone mad at Chuck Schumer...
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
Came across a review of this novel while spelunking 1939-1940 newspapers. Oddly timed wish fulfillment then and struck me the same sort of way now... but someday!
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Came across a review of this novel while spelunking 1939-1940 newspapers. Oddly timed wish fulfillment then and struck me the same sort of way now... but someday!
This week's Infinite Inning: A typical day of baseball yields to a night of murder, with a young life inexplicably snuffed out due to a young man who had never acted out before or after. A look back at May 8, 1949 on and off the field: www.spreaker.com/episode/infi...
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This week's Infinite Inning: A typical day of baseball yields to a night of murder, with a young life inexplicably snuffed out due to a young man who had never acted out before or after. A look back at May 8, 1949 on and off the field: www.spreaker.com/episode/infi...