The Losers, Part 1

Put Me In, Coach!

WE ARE BACK with a brand new season of PUT ME IN, COACH! Matt and Carl present to you our first long-form story tackling the legendary losers, baseball's own Cleveland Spiders, who won just 20 games in the 1899 season. Plus, we provide a brief check-in with how the MLB offseason has gone.

Here in the first chapter, we'll look at the history of baseball in Cleveland, how the Spiders came to be, and the greedy businessman who precipitated their demise. In next week's episode, we'll focus on the highs and lows of the 1899 season and how the Spiders' downfall changed baseball forever.

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Put Me In, Coach! is a baseball podcast hosted by Matt Coggins and Carl Mizell.

Theme music is by Quack Quack Seat Back. Edited and produced by Matt Coggins / Arctic Sounds.

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FOOTNOTES

Hetrick, J. Thomas (1999). Misfits! Baseball's Worst Ever Team. Pocol Press.

David L. Fleitz, Baseball Almanac (2001). The 1899 Cleveland Spiders: Baseball's Worst Team

Audrey Stark, SBNation (2019). What can we learn from the worst team in baseball history?

The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League by Robert B. Ross (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016)

Bob Bailey, SABR (1990): Four Teams Out: The National League Reduction of 1900

Foolish Baseball, Baseball Bits: The Team That Lost 134 Games

Fox Sports: MLB History: Owners Prevented from Owning More than One Team