Infinite Inning 055: The Man In The Dugout

Steve is joined by former major league manager Davey Johnson to discuss his life and adventures as described in his new autobiography, Davey Johnson: My Wild Ride in Baseball and Beyond. This week’s tales include taking the permanent exit from a Babe Ruth-era Yankees game and a Johnson-inspired story of an Orioles no-hitter gone wrong.THE INFINITE INNING FACEBOOK GROUP can be found here.TABLE OF CONTENTSRuthian Fatality*Barber’d and Bauer’d*Davey Johnson: HoJo at short*Hank Bauer*Earl Weaver, batting Mark Belanger second, and small samples*How much pressure are managers under?*Support Our Scholars*Marge Schott for Marriage!*Self-Confidence*Dwight Gooden and Bryce Harper*Managing the clubhouse*The Juan Samuel-Lenny Dykstra trade and who let the dogs out?*Maintaining success*The impossibility of saving Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry (and Kevin Mitchell deserves an apology)*Goodbyes.The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?