Hosted by Jerry Dynes · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 31 episodes
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Join us on this podcast exploring baseball's history and lore, plus enjoy some fastball trivia all in under 30 minutes. Topics will be all over the place - players, traditions, baseball lingo, stadiums, baseball movies/books. Like you, we just want to talk baseball!
Jerry Dynes hosts Fungos & Fastballs: Baseball History & Trivia, a sports show with 31 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail A baseball game that starts at 10 p.m. with no stadium lights sounds impossible, yet Fairbanks pulls it off every year. We kick things off with the Midnight Sun Game, a summer solstice tradition that has
Send us Fan Mail You can measure Wade Boggs with numbers, but you can’t really understand him without the stories. We start by checking the current MLB landscape with our friend Edwin Noland, moving division by division
Send us Fan Mail Seventeen ejections in one night should be impossible, yet baseball found a way. We start with the 1984 Braves Padres beanball brawl, where one hit-by-pitch spirals into pitcher retaliation, managers get
Send us Fan Mail Link to the National Assoc of Historic Base Ball Clubs Baseball changes completely when you strip away gloves, modern habits, and the assumptions we’ve all carried since Little League and it becomes Base
Send us Fan Mail A single baseball episode can feel like four different road trips, and that’s exactly the point here. We’re clearing out a backlog of “first pitches” with a grab bag of baseball history, MLB trivia, and
Send us Fan Mail A Cubs legend doesn’t have to be loud to be unforgettable, and Ryne Sandberg is the proof. We sit down with longtime friend and die-hard Cubs fan James Maumus to trace how a kid in New Orleans became dev
Send us Fan Mail Cooperstown tells one kind of baseball story. The Baseball Reliquary tells the one that lives in fan memory, strange artifacts, and the people who shaped the game’s lore even if they never fit a Hall of
Send us Fan Mail A home run derby sounds like a modern invention until you stumble on a 1960 TV series where Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and other legends went head-to-head for cash at Los Angeles Wrigley Fie
Send us Fan Mail The MLB season moves fast, and so do we: quick division check-ins, the kind you can actually remember, followed by the sort of baseball trivia that instantly upgrades how you talk about the game. We hit
Send us Fan Mail A runner gets lifted off first base. A ball disappears into the Metrodome plexiglass. A Game 7 stays scoreless so long you can feel every breath in the stadium. The 1991 World Series isn’t just a classic
Send us Fan Mail You can learn a lot about a team by the player it chooses to follow when things get loud. For my birthday special, I bring on my son Griffin Dynes (calling in from Denver) to talk about the toughest kind
Send us Fan Mail A rally monkey that only appears under strict rules, a capuchin celebrity from Friends, and fans waving stuffed primates like it’s a sacred rite. That’s where we start, because baseball’s superstitions a
Send us Fan Mail Jerry’s new Mariner Moose plush turns into a full blown tour through the strangest and most lovable corner of baseball culture: MLB mascots. We dig into why mascots work, why a few teams still refuse to
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Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to puncture a sports myth is to show the day-to-day life behind it and Jim Bouton did exactly that with Ball Four. We start with a quick detour into Jerry’s battered tennis hand, then get
Send us Fan Mail One bad idea can become baseball history, and sometimes it takes the form of a crate full of disco records wired to explode in center field. We go from a quick, colorful detour on the Mendoza Line (baseb
Send us Fan Mail A fastball that “blue bayou” sounds like something you’d hear in a music documentary, not a baseball broadcast, but that’s exactly why we love the game. We kick things off with one of our favorite bits o
Send us Fan Mail Baseball doesn’t pause for history, even when history is at its loudest. We pick up a question that hovered over America after Pearl Harbor: should Major League Baseball keep playing during World War II,
Send us Fan Mail What if you could step into the batting cage and face tonight’s starter without burning a single pitch? We open with the Trajekt machine, the AI-powered pitching system transforming batting practice by r
Send us Fan Mail A rivalry doesn’t become legend overnight; it’s built pitch by pitch until one swing echoes for decades. We’re stepping into October 1978 at Fenway Park with an eyewitness who felt the bleachers shake, a
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