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Midnight Library of Baseball, 99 episodes.

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E7: The Day Professional Baseball Was Born

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E6: The Ugly Truth of Amateurism

3

E5: Jim Creighton Lives?

4

In Search of the White Whale: A Talk With Brian Gaffney

5

E4: An Instruction Manual On How To Destroy Hitters

6

E3: The Lightning-Fast Game Called Baseball

7

E2: The Day The Pitcher Defied The Game

8

E1: The Conspiracy

9

The World Baseball League Comes To Iowa

10

Best of Midnight Library of Baseball, Part 3

11

Best of Midnight Library of Baseball, Part 2

12

Best of Midnight Library of Baseball, Part 1

13

What the Heck is the World Baseball League?

14

E17: The Last Broadcast

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More Than Just a Game

16

E16: The Last Laugh

17

E15: Summer, Interrupted

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E14: Baseball Through the Lens of TV Drama

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E13: Ed Randall, The Makings of a Broadcaster

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E12: When They Vanished

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E11: The Curse of 61

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E10: The Strange History of Home Run Derby

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Ep9: The Athlete Television Made a Star

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Ep8: The Game that Sold America on Television

25

Ep7: The Voices We Carried

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Ep6: Homer at the Bat

27

Ep5: The Golden Age of Baseball and Radio

28

Ep4: The Recreators

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An Interview with Kelyn Ikegami, director of "The Streak"

30

Ep3: The Day Baseball Found Its Voice

31

Ep2: The Swing Heard 'Round The World

32

Ep1: A Love Letter to Phil Rizzuto

33

Bonus Episode: Rounders Host Jeffrey Lambert Stops by the Library

34

Ep. 19: What if They Lived in Each Other's Time?

35

Bonus Episode: Robert Elias Stops By the Library

36

Ep. 18: Legacy in Only 2,131 Steps

37

Ep. 17: The Man Behind The Streak

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Ep. 16: The Third Man

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Ep. 15: From Obscurity to Immortality

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Ep 14: The Streak

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Ep 13: Why Didn't He Just Try?

42

Ep 12: Here Comes The Judge

43

Ep 11: The Commissioner Who Would be King

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Bonus Episode: Author and journalist Scott Miller stops by the library

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Ep. 10: The Secret History of Night Baseball

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Ep. 9: The Game that Feared the Dark

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Ep. 8: The Haunted Game

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Ep. 7: Sorry Ray. This guy did it first.

49

Ep. 6: The Baseball Reliquary

50

Ep. 5: Bridging the Chasm

51

Ep. 4: Fallen Through the Cracks

52

Bonus Episode: Former MLB Pitcher Jerry Blevins Stops by the Library

53

Ep. 3: Part 3, The Greatest Myth in Baseball History

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Ep. 2: Part 2, The Greatest Myth in Baseball History

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Ep. 1: The Greatest Myth in Baseball History

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Season 3 Teaser and Review Contest Announcement

57

Ep. 14: In Search of a Catch

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Ep. 13: The Field

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Ep. 12: After Iowa

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Ep. 11: Heartbeat of a Dream

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Ep. 10: Better Than Magic

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Ep. 9: Magic Tricks Revealed

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Ep. 8: Almost in Field of Dreams

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Ep. 7: A Little Help From My Friends

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Ep. 6: The Five-Year Itch

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Ep. 5: Catcher in the Corn

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Ep. 4: Eddie Scissons Syndrome

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Ep. 3: Lost and Found in Translation

69

Ep. 2: Field of Contradictions

70

Ep. 1: The Bluff

71

Season 2 Trailer

72

Ep. 25: The Tools of Ignorance, Part 4 - The Invisible Man

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Ep. 24: The Tools of Ignorance, Part 3 - Action and Glory

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Ep. 23: The Tools of Ignorance, Part 2 - Glove Affairs

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Ep. 22: The Tools of Ignorance, Part 1

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Ep. 21: Three Home Run Races and How They Changed Baseball

77

Bonus Episode: Mark Armour and Dan Levitt Stop By The Library

78

Ep. 20: More core stats are lies? Say it ain't so, Joe

79

Ep. 19: When Stats Lie and We Have to Say Goodbye

80

Ep. 18: Barnstorming and the Most Perfect Baseball

81

Ep. 17: Substances in Baseball, Then and Now

82

Ep. 16: The Untold Story of Tobacco in Baseball

83

Ep. 15: The Natural Vs Field of Dreams

84

Bonus Episode: Author Jason Turbow Visits the Library

85

Ep. 14: The Code

86

Ep. 13: Searching for the Real Natural

87

Ep. 12: The Strange and Wondrous Life of Rick Ankiel

88

Bonus Episode: Rounders Host Jeffrey Lambert Visits the Library

89

Ep. 11: The Echo of Donnie Moore

90

Ep. 10: The Echo of Bill Buckner

91

Ep. 9: The Could Have Beens

92

Ep. 8: Will a Female Ever Play Major League Baseball?

93

Ep. 7: Trick or Cheat

94

Ep. 6: How Much Did They Actually Make?

95

Ep. 5: Gambling: Savior And Destroyer Of Baseball

96

Ep. 4: They Used To Do That?

97

Ep. 3: Why The Knuckleball Is So Successful And So Rare

98

Ep. 2: How Ray Chapman’s Death Saved Future Lives

99

Ep. 1: Did Lou Gehrig Have Lou Gehrig’s Disease?