Skip to content
Small Hall Baseball Podcast cover art

All Episodes

Small Hall Baseball Podcast — 99 episodes

#
Title
1

The Length of Careers Looking Much Too Short and Willie Mays Tenure Is Of Highest Import

2

Prospect Importance Is Up In the Air and Hack Willson's Case is Worse For The Wear

3

Owners In Sports Changing For The Worse and Addie Joss' Induction Feels Slightly Coerced

4

Coaches in Baseball Lagging Behind and Mathews Career at Third is Greatness Defined

5

Trading Deadline Still Relevant Today and Mr. Cub's Greatness Is On Full Display

6

Rookie of the Year Award Missing It's Sheen and Amos Rusie's Case Not Looking So Clean

7

Cycles and No-Hitters Still Have Import and Joe Sewell's Numbers May Just Fall Short

8

Manager Quality Hard To Pin Down and Roger Connor's Greatness Deserves More Renown

9

Mascot Relevance Waning With Time and Bob Lemon's Career Up For The Climb?

10

Early Firings Becoming All The Rage and The Friends of Frankie Frisch Final Day Onstage

11

The Small Hall Smörgåsbord 5: A Good Day To Die Hard

12

Harry the K's replaced at Citizen's Bank and Robin Roberts Career Enough to Join the Ranks?

13

Jurikson Profar Remains Dumb As Can Be and Earl Averill As HOF Worthy As His Eyes Can See?

14

Media Landscape A Hard Nut To Crack and Billy Herman's Career, Greatness It Did Not Lack

15

MLB Players Look To The World Stage and Ralph Kiner's Peak Does Not Quite Engage

16

The 2026 Hall of Fame Ballot Discussion

17

Winning With No Stars May Be Only A Dream and Jim Bottomley's Career, Does It Have The Right Gleam?

18

Vet's Committee Selection Perplexes Us All and Whitey Ford's Hall Case Is Far From A Close Call

19

The Small Hall Smörgåsbord 4: The Quest for Small Hall Peace

20

Can A Half-Time Player Be The Best In The Game and Mantle's Great Career A Bright Burning Flame

21

The Phillies Regression Is Nearly Complete and Sam Thompsons Numbers Never Took A Backseat

22

MLB Awards Season Approaching Quite Fast and Clemente's Career Is A Legacy Sure To Last

23

Hitters Today All Lacking Technique and George Kelly's Case Is Exceptionally Weak

24

Geographic Divisions Are Purely For Show and Spahn's True Greatness Has All Of Us Aglow

25

Player Health Issues Won't Be Assuaged and Mickey Welch's Complete Games Few Have Upstaged

26

Milestones Lesser Than When They Began and Yogi Berra Proved To Be The Yankees Main Man

27

The Prospect Paradox Can Hold Up The Show and Lefty Gomez Stats Show Very Low Plateau

28

The Small Hall Smörgåsbord 3: A New Hope

29

The Sandy Koufax Show

30

Pete Rose's Exile, Early Wynn's Stockpile, and My Mom Denise's Life Was Entirely Worthwhile

31

Five Man Rotations Dying A Slow Death and Ross Young's Career Simply Ran Out of Breath.

32

Gamesmanship Having Its Ups and Downs and Dave Bancroft's Case Not As Solid As It Sounds

33

ABS Challenging Doesn't Matter A Whole Lot and Jake Beckley's Numbers Are Quite Hot to Trot

34

Foreign League Players Knocking At The Hall and Chick Hafey's Numbers Quite Likely To Appall

35

Designated Hitter Has No Love From Us and Harry Hooper's Numbers Really Do Miss The Bus

36

The Small Hall Smörgåsbord 2: Electric Boogaloo

37

The 2025 Hall of Fame Ballot Discussion

38

Owners and Fans Struggle For Control and Joe Kelley's Case Is Not Lacking Soul

39

Character Clause Is Up For Debate and Marquard's Grand Stories Won't Let Him Skate

40

2024 Phillies Season Debrief and With Satchel's Career We Have Zero Beef

41

Pete Rose's Passing Has Fans Quite Intense and Boudreau's Numbers Are Right On The Fence

42

The Small Hall Smörgåsbord

43

White Sox Miasma Historically Bad and Earle Combs Numbers Miss Just By A Tad

44

Short Season Titles Count Just The Same and Jesse Haines Career Has Quite The Low Flame

45

Mays and Cepeda Were Giants of the Game and Roy Campanella Was Worth All The Acclaim

46

Catchers' Hall of Fame Standard Under Debate and Stan Coveleski Career No Time to Stagnate

47

Baseball Careers That Suddenly End and Waite Hoyte's Totals Just Don't Contend

48

Top Prospect Label Perilous Indeed and Stan The Man Career A Rarified Breed

49

Gambling Spectre Continues to Creep and KiKi Cuyler's Climb Looking Quite Steep

50

Umpire's Job Not As Easy As It Seems and Goose Goslin Realizing Those Hall of Fame Dreams

51

KC Electorate Give Royals the Score and Joe Medwick's Peak Has Numbers Galore

52

Picking Divisions and World Series Too and Red Ruffing Numbers Not Quite Coming Through

53

Pitcher's Max Effort Causes Much Harm and Lloyd Waner's Numbers Lack Brother's Charm

54

Single-Ply Uniforms Truly A Crime and Ted Williams Career Was Neverending Prime

55

Statistics Becoming An End In Themselves and Pub Galvin Records Are Very Top Shelves

56

Orioles Fanbase Soon To Be Freed and Shortstop Luke Appling Built To Succeed

57

The 2024 Hall of Fame Ballot Discussion

58

Hall of Fame Standards Ridiculously High and Red Faber's Hall Hype In Very Short Supply

59

Dodgers' Shenanigans Bad For The Game and Burleigh Grime Resume Looking Quite Tame

60

The Shohei Ohtani Deal Is Quite Berzerk and Tim Keefe Knew How To Put In The Work

61

St. Louis Cardinals Rotation So Old and Heinie Manush Breaks That WAR Mold

62

MLB Expands, The Beginning of the End and Monte Ward Hits For His Career To Extend

63

Texas Rangers Finally Break Through and John Clarkson, Old Hoss Part Two (Season Finale)

64

Phillies Good Vibes Are Just Not Enough and Elmer Flick's Resume Looks A Bit Rough

65

Postseason Series Not So Much Drama and Sam Rice's Career Fights Through The Trauma

66

Wild Card Series Excitement Abound and Nelson Cruz Career Not Quite Well Renowed

67

NL Cy Young Race Looking Quite Lean and Mr. Oriole Was A Gold Glove Machine

68

Kelsey Discussing Her St. Louis Team and Eppa Rixey's Career Is Missing The Gleam

69

MVP Candidates Needing Their Team and Andrew McCutchen's Cooperstown Dream

70

MLB Standings All Bunched Together and Bob Feller Fastball Ruined By Weather

71

Anaheim Angels Fallen From Grace and Edd Roush's Career Might Have A Case

72

Shohei Ohtani Buyer Beware and Max Carey's Numbers Lacking In Flair

73

Yankee Bench Gives Fans Bad Look and Sliding Billy Hamilton Could Really Cook

74

Orioles Ownership Feels the Heat and The Vet's Committee Believes in Wheat

75

The New York Mets Punting The Ball and The Triples Leader Sliding Into The Hall

76

Regional Sports Losing Ground and Joe Cronin Manages To Astound

77

MLB All-Star Ratings Fall and Hank Greenberg Murdered That Ball

78

Top All-Stars Raise the Bar and Joey Votto Close, But No Cigar

79

Ohtani Still Not The GOAT and Home Run Baker Misses The Boat

80

Plate Blocking Rule Exposed and Ray Schalk's Hitting Woes

81

Stephen Strasburg Overpaid and Rabbit Doesn't Make The Grade

82

Lou Gehrig Tribute, Phillies Becoming Moot, and Dizzy Dean Gets The Boot

83

Oakland's Dire Straits and Hall of Famers Value Has No Weight

84

Paul Waner's Baseball is Fun, But 400 Saves Won't Get It Done

85

Philly Fandom Hate and Foxx and Ott Were Just Plain Great

86

Oakland A's Relocation Plan and Gehringer, The Mechanical Man

87

MLB Owners Try To Limit Years and Pie Traynor's Forgotten Career

88

Tampa Bay Starts Hot and Expansion, We Hope Not!

89

Minor League Unionizes and Jackie Robinson Revolutionizes

90

Opening Day Woe and Examination of Shoeless Joe

91

2023 Predictions Galore with Tinker to Evers to Chance and More!

92

World Baseball Stakes Ratchet and Turf Gets the Hatchet

93

1964 Phillies Crumble and Old Timers Stumble

94

Regional Sports Fall But Finally A Smaller Hall

95

Willie, Lefty, and the Iron Horse

96

Ideal Phillies Found But Only Pitchers on the Mound

97

World Series and Baseball Movies

98

Flash in the Pan and Crazy Shift Ban

99

Rolen Into Cooperstown