Good Seats Still Available
Summary: “Good Seats Still Available” is a curious little podcast devoted to the exploration of what used-to-be in professional sports. Each week, host Tim Hanlon interviews former players, owners, broadcasters, beat reporters, and surprisingly famous "super fans" of teams and leagues that have come and gone - in an attempt to unearth some of the most wild and woolly moments in (often forgotten) sports history.
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- Artist: Tim Hanlon
- Copyright: 2018 Good Seats Still Available
Podcasts:
062: The Whaler Guys
061: Sports Promoter Doug Verb
060: Baseball’s League That Never Was: The Continental League with Professor Russ Buhite
059: Pro Soccer’s Dean of Media Relations, Jim Trecker
058: The Intersection of Sports & Art with Artist/Designer Wayland Moore
057: The Pro Football Life of Upton Bell
With Major League Baseball finally back in full swing, we dial the Wayback Machine all the way back to the year 1890, when the professional version of America’s Pastime was still nascent, its business model was largely unproven, and the players of the day seethed at their team owners’ increasingly restrictive operating practices – to the point of dramatic and open revolt that ultimately set the contentious tone of owner-player relations for baseball and all of US pro sports for generations to follow.
055: Russ Cline and the Birth of Modern-Day Indoor Box Lacrosse
054: Effa Manley & the Negro National League’s Newark Eagles with Biographer Bob Luke
053: NHL Hockey’s Minnesota North Stars with Author Adam Raider
052: The Wild & Wacky World Football League with Author Mark Speck - Part Two
Perhaps no defunct league in modern-day professional sports history endured a more ignominious storyline and spectacular demise than that of the World Football League – a uniquely disastrous attempt to establish a summer-into-autumn rival to the National Football League during the mid-1970’s.
While the Detroit Tigers hold the record as the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in the American League, they were not the first team to play major league baseball in the Motor City. That distinction goes to the Detroit Wolverines of the late 19th-century National League, which took to the field for the first time against the Buffalo Bisons on May 2, 1881 in front of a curious crowd of 1,286 at Recreation Park – land now occupied by today’s Detroit Medical Center in the city’s Midtown.
Author Ian Plenderleith (Rock 'n' Roll Soccer: The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League) joins host Tim Hanlon to discuss all the color and chaos of the world's first truly international league.
Four-time American Basketball Association All-Star Bob Netolicky and former Indianapolis Star sportswriter Robin Miller join host Tim Hanlon to share some of their most memorable (and heretofore untold) first-person accounts of playing and traveling with the thrice-ABA-champion Indiana Pacers – and promote their upcoming book We Changed the Game, penned in partnership with original team co-founder/owner Dick Tinkham.
