Ep 1– Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn's Crazy 1884 Campaign

09/11/2020 15 min
Ep 1– Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn's Crazy 1884 Campaign

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Episode Synopsis

In the inaugural episode of the podcast Tales from Left Field, we take a look at a pitcher for the Providence Grays named Charles Radbourn who, due to the shenanigans of one of his teammates, decided to put his entire team on his back. Then he went out there and pitched nearly 700 innings on the season en route to winning 59 games in one season. This set the benchmark for single-season wins by a pitcher that is one of the strangest– and most unbreakable– records in professional sports.