Not yet. He's a tricky subject because he was very clearly a troubled man and so many of the stories about him paint him as an object of ridicule. Also, it's hard to nail down dates of what occurred when. He's on the short list for sure, but any episode we'd do would not be to point and laugh at him

Seems likely, but I don't know how we'd even go about figuring this out definitively.

We haven't done an episode on Speaker yet, and he's definitely one of the higher profile HOFers we've yet to focus on for an episode, so I imagine his turn is coming up soon.

Oh wow. God, I remember seeing Eric Hosmer on a back field at Royals camp when he was still at AA and the guy hit the longest ball I've ever seen, but hit it foul. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

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who was definitely racist and definitely an ass, but the degrees to which he was both are in dispute. The hard part about it is then we have to really dig into someone for a week who's going to really bum us out. So we try to space those eps out.

Absolutely. It was a long time ago, but we have an ep on the Ben Chapman/Phillies game. thisweekinbaseballhistory.libsyn.com/episode-46-j...

We have talked about people like that tangentially on the show often, and sometimes done a deep dive into someone like Cobb,