Baseball season is officially here with pitchers & catchers reported this week. I talk about the new managers that were replacing the abrupt firings of the Mets, Red Sox, and Astros. I also talk about the Mookie Betts trade as well as the retirement of two good players. Finally wrapping it up by complaining about the new baseball playoff format MLB…

Surprising results in this year's results.

Talking about the signing of Josh Donaldson, Astros scandal wrapping up, and how the teams will fare in 2020.

Talking about recent transactions in the Hot Stove, covering the first week of the new year. Mostly Nationals signings.

Talking about the Hot Stove transactions that happened over the Holiday season. Looks like the Blue Jays and the White Sox are poised for a breakout year in 2020.

Talking about the Christmas Truce of 1914, the greatest moment in WW1.

Apologies for being a day late; I was unable to upload to Anchor yesterday, the file would remain at 0% uploaded. Seems fixed today. ⦁ DECEMBER 14 1799. George Washington dies. 1911. Roald Amundsen becomes first explorer to reach the South Pole. 1939. USSR is expelled from the League of Nations. 2012. Sandy Hook Shooting. ⦁ DECEMBER 15 1890. Sittin…

Quick podcast of the big happenings in the Hot Stove of baseball this past week!

⦁ DECEMBER 7 1787. Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution. 1941. Pearl Harbor bombed. 1988. Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia ⦁ DECEMBER 8 1914. Battle of the Falkland Islands starts. 1940. Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game. 1941. Jeannette Rankin casts sole vote against joining WW2. 1949. Chinese Nationalists …

We talk about the signings and trades that have been made this week in baseball.

Here I go over the guys missed on the HoF Vet ballot this year. The Case for Whitaker He was a star 2B for the Detroit Tigers his entire career, spanning 1977-1995. His .276 average, 2369 hits, and 244 homers don’t look impressive on their own, but they’re only part of a larger skill set. Whitaker had a great batting eye, taking 1197 walks and bump…

DECEMBER 2 1804 Napoleon crowned emperor Link to full episode on this 1823 During his annual address to Congress, President James Monroe proclaims a new U.S. foreign policy initiative that becomes known as the “Monroe Doctrine." 1859 Militant abolitionist John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder and insurrection. 1917 A formal ceasefire…

We talk about some of the free agent signings that have been done so far.

Overview In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. The Corsican-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly r…

I decide to talk about baseball again, and the 2020 Hall of Fame ballot. Who I think will stay on the ballot, who falls off, and who gets in as well as some opinions on the players. Still working on my Facebook page, Facebook is a royal pain to navigate!

Just a quick update, today's episode is taking a bit longer to write than I expected, sorry for the delay. Episode should be out later today or tomorrow.

Just wanted to let you all know I will be taking a brief hiatus from doing the podcast; I will return on Nov 25th. Why the hiatus? 1. I plan on restructuring and reorganizing the daily history podcast to have more content and delve into greater depth. 2. I plan on expanding into different topics. I always wanted this to be a variety podcast, and I …

1528 The Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state. 1917 Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’État ag…

1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discover a step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. After World War I, Carter began an intensive search for “King Tut’s Tomb,” finally finding steps to the burial room hidden in the debris near the entrance of the nearby tomb of King Ramses VI in the V…

Second interview with Rex Barton, where we go over his time in military school, and the experiences within. Read Rex Barton's Autobiography: https://www.therexbartonstory.com/ Buy Rex Baton's Books! https://www.rexbartonbooks.com/

1415 During the Hundred Years’ War between England and France, Henry V, the young king of England, leads his forces to victory at the Battle of Agincourt in northern France. Two months before, Henry had crossed the English Channel with 11,000 men and laid siege to Harfleur in Normandy. After five weeks the town surrendered, but Henry lost half his …

42 BC Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, dies by suicide after his defeat at the second battle of Philippi. Two years before, Brutus had joined Gaius Cassius Longinus in the plot against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, believing he was striking a blow for the restoration of the Roman Republic. Howev…

1805 In one of the most decisive naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off the coast of Spain. At sea, Lord Nelson and the Royal Navy consistently thwarted Napoleon Bonaparte, who led France to preeminence on the European mainland. N…

1851 Moby Dick is Published for the First Time. The epic written by American novelist, Herman Melville, is about a sailor's obsession with tracking down and killing an elusive whale that took his leg in a previous encounter. The book was published as The Whale in London for the first time and then a month later as Moby Dick in the United States. It…

Having a head cold at the moment, hopefully I can get an episode up tomorrow or over the weekend. If not, next week. Have a good rest of the week!

1066 Battle of Hastings. Almost three weeks after landing his invasion force in England, Duke William I of Normandy takes on King Harold II and his infantry at the Battle of Hastings. By sunset, the Anglo-Saxon Age ends and William the Conqueror's Norman rule begins, with Harold dead and William soon to be crowned king. 1912 Before a campaign speec…

1809 Famous explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of the morning after stopping for the night at Grinder’s Tavern along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Bankrupt and in debt, unmarried, his journals of the expedition unpublished, Lewis’s life was a shambles. It was all quite a comedown from the heroic exped…

732 At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish and North African Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Cordoba, was killed in the fighting, and the Moors retreated from France, never to return in such force. Victory…

1934 In Marseilles, a Bulgarian/Macedonian revolutionary Vlado Chernozemski, associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary and Italy, assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The French Foreign Minister Louis Barth…

1871 The Great Chicago Fire starts in the barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million (in 1871 dollars; $3 billion in 2007 dollars) in damages. Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in the O’Lea…

1571 The Battle of Lepanto takes place as a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras, in the Ionian Sea off of Greece. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in Lepanto when they met the flee…

The Hollow Leg sits down with local author and gentleman Rex Barton for a first interview in a series that will cover Rex Barton from his childhood up to present day. We get an introduction to Rex, what he does, who he is, and why he's decided to write his story. We hope that you enjoy the interviews with Rex, we plan on doing a lot more. Be sure t…

1263 The Battle of Largs takes place. It was an indecisive engagement between the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde near Largs, Scotland. The conflict formed part of the Norwegian expedition against Scotland in 1263, in which Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway attempted to reassert Norwegian sovereignty over the western seaboard…

Just an announcement that there will be an interview publishing on Friday with local author Rex Barton! It will be the first in a series of interviews that we will have with him. It will be published on Friday, Oct 4 at 12:00pm Pacific time. Hope you all enjoy!

1540 Ignatius of Loyola's Society of Jesus becomes an official part of the Catholic Church. Known as the Jesuits, or 'God's Soldiers,' the order will send missionaries throughout the world to evangelize their faith. The Jesuit movement was founded by Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, in August 1534. In September 1540, Pope Paul I…

1687 Having stood more than 2,000 years, the grand and glorious Parthenon of Athens is nearly destroyed during the Morean War (1684–1699) when a Venetian mortar round ignites Ottoman Turk gunpowder stored inside. 1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive opens after a six-hour-long bombardment over the previous night. More than 700 Allied tanks, followed closel…

1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge: English army under King Harold Godwinson defeat invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed. Although Harold Godwinson repelled the Norwegian invaders, his victory was short-lived. Three days after the battle, on 28 September, a second invasion army led by William…

622 The prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira, or “flight,” from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution. In Medina, Muhammad set about building the followers of his religion—Islam—into an organized community and Arabian power. The Hegira would later mark the beginning (year 1) of the Muslim calendar. 1789 The Judiciary Act of 1789 is passed by Congr…

1642 Harvard holds its first graduation ceremony as nine graduates participate in Harvard College's first commencement exercise. Fourteen undergrads, family members, clergy, plus Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company, look on. America's first college will go on to become one of the world's most prestigious universities. 1806 Amid much …

1356 English forces under Edward the Black Prince defeat the French at Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King John II. The Battle of Poitiers was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War. Edward, the Black Prince, led an army of English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops, many of them veterans of the Battle of Crécy. They were attack…

1793 George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government. The building would take nearly a century to complete, as architects came and went, the British set fire to it and it was called into use during the Civil War by Union troops as a hospital and barracks. Today,…

1394 Charles VI suddenly published an ordinance in which he declared, in substance, that for a long time he had been taking note of the many complaints provoked by the excesses and misdemeanors which the Jews committed against Christians; and that the prosecutors, having made several investigations, had discovered many violations by the Jews of the…

335 Church of the Holy Sepulchre consecrated. In Jerusalem, Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor responsible for the legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire, consecrates a new church built over the purported sites of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. Deemed by many as Christendom's holiest place, the Church of the Holy …

490 BC Battle of Marathon. During the first Persian invasion of Greece, the citizen army of Athens, aided by Plataea, defeat a much larger Persian force. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece. The Battle of Marathon was a watershed in the Greco-Persian wars, showing the Greeks that t…

2001 September 11th attacks on the US. 9 AD The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. 1297 Scots under William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English at Stirling Bridge during the First War of Scottish Independence. 1792 King Louis XIV's 68-carat 'French Blue' diamond is stolen. 1921 Silent-film star Fatty Arbuckle arrested for murder. 1973 Chilean …

1813 American flotilla under Oliver Hazard Perry wrests naval supremacy from the British on Lake Erie. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the…

1522 Victoria Becomes the First Ship to Circumnavigate the World. The Spanish ship, which was commanded by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, set sail from Spain September 20, 1519, to find a better route to Indonesia. The expedition began with 5 ships including Victoria and 260 crew members. Magellan himself died during the voyage. After …

1877 Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. A year earlier, Crazy Horse was among the Sioux leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory. The battle, in which 265 members of th…

476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman Emperor in the West, abdicates the throne after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Flavius Odoacer becomes the first king of Italy after leading a successful rebellion against Western Rome's young emperor. The beginning of his reign will traditionally mark the end of the Ancient Roman epoch and the start of the Mi…

36 BC In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. 301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus. 1189 Richard the Lionheart is crown…