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"Good Seats Still Available" is a curious little podcast devoted to the exploration of what used-to-be in professional sports.
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461: Baseball's Texas League - With William H. Brewster (opens the original)
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Long before the Texas League became one of minor league baseball's most enduring institutions, it began as a decidedly shaky experiment in a state still trying to prove it belonged on the national sporting map. In 1887, a barnstorming New York Giants club swept through Texas crushing local amateur teams — until John McCloskey's imported squad of professional players, newly adopted by Austin, pulled off a stunning upset. The victory helped convince local businessmen that Texas was ready for somet
460: "Honolulu Blues" - With Joel Walkowski (opens the original)
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In Detroit, loving the Lions has rarely been about winning. For author, comedian and Motor City native Joel Walkowski , it became something much deeper: a family inheritance, a language shared with his father, and eventually a way to understand his own struggles with addiction, recovery, disappointment and resilience. Walkowski's engaging new book, " Honolulu Blues: How Loving a Losing Football Team Created a Winning Man ," weaves the tortured history of the NFL's Detroit Lions into an intensely
459: CNN "Sports Tonight" Pioneer Fred Hickman - With Harrison Golden (opens the original)
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Long before ESPN's SportsCenter became a cultural institution, Fred Hickman was helping define what sports television could be. One of the fledgling Cable News Network 's original on-air personalities, Hickman became nationally known alongside Nick Charles on CNN Sports Tonight , where "Nick and Hick" paired serious sports journalism with an easy, conversational chemistry that made the nightly highlights feel both authoritative and welcoming. Their signature "Play of the Day" became so recogniza
458: "Finding Renée Richards" - With Julie Kliegman (opens the original)
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For decades, Renée Richards lived with an intensely private struggle over her gender identity while building an accomplished life as an athlete, physician, husband and father. Through it all, tennis remained one of the few constants. Before transitioning in the mid-1970s, Richards - then known as Richard "Dick" Raskind - had been a gifted amateur tennis player, Yale graduate, Navy veteran and successful ophthalmologist. But beneath those achievements was a lifelong conflict Richards later descri
457: Boxer Michael Spinks - With Jack Hirsch (opens the original)
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Boxer Michael Spinks was one of the most accomplished fighters of his generation, even if his career has never received quite the recognition it deserves. A gold medalist at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Spinks became the dominant light heavyweight of his era before doing what no reigning light heavyweight champion had ever done: move up and defeat the heavyweight champion, upsetting the unbeaten Larry Holmes in 1985 and beating him again the following year. Yet for many casual sports fans, Spinks
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