The Minor League Nerd
This is an audio version of the Minor League Nerd YouTube Channel, which covers the history of minor league baseball teams.
Episodes
With the colligate summer league Marion Hungry Mothers beginning play recently, we are looking at Marion's only professional teams, the Marion A's and the Marion Mets in this Franchise History Series episode.
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This Franchise History Series episode covers the Las Vegas Wranglers who played in a few different leagues between 1947 and 1952 and then again in 1957 and for part of the 1958 baseball season.
This Minor League Nerd Story Break episode looks at an insane game that took place in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League on July 20, 1926.
This Minor League Nerd Special Episode looks at the baseball career of professional wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage.
This Minor League Nerd Mostly Forgotten Teams episode covers the Jackson Mets of the Double-A Texas League.
This Minor League Nerd Mostly Forgotten Teams episode tells the story of the 1974 Victoria Toros of the Texas League.
This Minor League Nerd Shorts episode looks at the history of the Memphis Blues who played in the Double-A Texas League from 1968 to 1973.
This Minor League Nerd Story Break tells the interesting story of something that happened during a town ball game in Dassel, MN on August 18, 1940.
This Minor League Nerd Special Episode tells the story of the baseball anthem Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
This Minor League Nerd Story Break is about the one and only time in the history of professional baseball in which all nine members of a starting lineup for a team hit a home run in one game.
This Minor League Nerd Story Break covers a major blow out that took place in Douglas, AZ in 1956.
This Mostly Forgotten Teams episode looks at the history of the Wichita Aeros who played in the old Triple-A American Association from 1970 to 1984.
This Franchise History Series episode covers the Atlanta Black Crackers, who played as an independent team as well as in the Negro Southern League, the Negro American League and the Negro American Association between 1919 and 1949.
This Minor League Nerd Special episode covers the Southern League of Colored Base Ballists, which was the first attempt at forming an all black baseball league back in 1886.
This Franchise History Series episode looks at the history of the Tucson Toros who played in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League from 1969 to 1997. We covered on our old Throwback Thursday Cap of the Day Series, which were not uploaded as a podcast versions, making this our eleventh expanded and recut episode from that series.
This Minor League Nerd Story Break episode tells the story of the time a batter in the Texas League was called out at home after hitting a home run.
This episode of Minor League Nerd Shorts covers the two teams that are known today as the Muncie Fruit Jars. One played in 1906. The other played in 1908.
This Minor League Nerd Story Break episode is about the fastest game played in the history of professional baseball.
This episode of our Mostly Forgotten Teams Series looks at the history of the Rockford Rox who played in the Class C Central Association from 1947 to 1949.
This episode of Mostly Forgotten Teams is part two of our two part series covering the history of Minor League Baseball in Dallas, TX. This episode covers 1946 to 1964.
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