Infinite Inning 349: The Very Complicated Bat Factory

We observe the passing of the Milwaukee Brewers out of the championship picture via Casey Stengel (who once managed the minor league Brewers to a championship) mourning a day Whitey Ford was outdueled by a journeyman. Then we go back to 1965 to note the difference between a protest and a riot, theorize about what the latter implies about its participants, and finish with a sincere attempt to alleviate the pain of one of America’s worst urban riots by making a new kind of bat.  

The Infinite Inning is a journey to the past to...