E352 - Infinite Inning 352: Why Are There Bad People When There is Also Good Baseball

We look at an ordinary day of baseball, May 8, 1949, and some extraordinary—and tragic—things that happened. First, a couple of good pitchers get shelled, then we witness some typically disposable regular season games before noticing a young woman who was treated as if she too were disposable, though she very much was not.

Trigger Warning: The second half of this episode contains discussion of a violent crime and some images may be disturbing.

The Infinite Inning is a journey to the past to understand the present using base...