Podcasts by Hollow Leg Podcast

Hollow Leg Baseball | Baseball season is here! from 2020-02-12T21:05:24

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.

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Hollow Leg Baseball | 2020 Hall of Fame Results from 2020-01-22T20:45:34

Surprising results in this year's results.

Hollow Leg Baseball | Last Hot Stove of 2019-2020 offseason from 2020-01-20T22:13:22

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

Hollow Leg Baseball | Hot Stove January 1-8th! from 2020-01-08T21:45:23

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

Hollow Leg Baseball | Hot Stove December 19-30th! from 2019-12-30T21:17:43

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.

Hollow Leg Podcast | The Christmas Truce of 1914 from 2019-12-23T22:06:59

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

Hollow Leg History | Events for December 14-20 from 2019-12-21T22:21:15

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 die...

Hollow Leg Baseball | Hot Stove December 12-18! from 2019-12-18T21:50:08

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

Hollow Leg History | Events for December 7-13 from 2019-12-13T22:03:53

⦁ DECEMBER 7

1787. Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution.

1941. Pearl Harbor bombed.

1988. Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia

⦁ DECEMBER 8

Hollow Leg Baseball | Hot Stove December 5-11! from 2019-12-11T21:32:34

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

Hollow Leg Baseball | Veterans Committee Results, and Discussion of Missed Candidates from 2019-12-09T23:17:10

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...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened this Week in History? December 2-6 from 2019-12-07T21:45:42

DECEMBER 2

1804

Napoleon crowned emperor Listen

Hollow Leg Baseball | Free Agent Signings! from 2019-12-04T21:21

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

Hollow Leg History | Napoleon Crowned Emperor; This Day, December 2nd from 2019-12-02T21:48:41

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 h...

Hollow Leg Baseball | Hall of Fame 2020 Ballot from 2019-11-26T22:34:38

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...

Quick Update from 2019-11-25T21:53:11

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.

Hollow Leg Update from 2019-11-13T21:16:44

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 d...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, November 6? from 2019-11-06T20:43:33

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 ...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, November 4? from 2019-11-04T21:04:08

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 in...

Interview #2 with Author Rex Barton from 2019-10-29T20:23:57

Second interview with Rex Barton, where we go over his time in military school, and the experiences within.

Read Rex Barton's Autobiography: Listen

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on Today's Date, October 25? from 2019-10-25T20:12:21

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 be...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 23? from 2019-10-23T19:47:30

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 jo...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 21? from 2019-10-21T19:43:42

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...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 18? from 2019-10-18T20:13:49

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...

Hollow Leg Update: Currently Sick from 2019-10-17T19:15:44

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!

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 14? from 2019-10-14T20:06:53

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 ...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 11? from 2019-10-11T20:17:30

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 Ten...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 10? from 2019-10-10T20:10:19

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 Wes...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 9? from 2019-10-09T20:22:52

1934

In Marseilles, a Bulgarian/Macedonian revolutionary Vlado Chernozemski, associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary and Italy, assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Fo...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 8? from 2019-10-08T20:14:44

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 10...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 7? from 2019-10-07T19:56:07

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...

Interview with Author Rex Barton | Hollow Leg Heroes from 2019-10-04T19:00

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 introducti...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, October 2? from 2019-10-02T19:41:08

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 ...

Upcoming Interview with Author Rex Barton from 2019-10-01T20:17:12

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 ...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 27? from 2019-09-27T20:25:37

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 worl...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 26? from 2019-09-26T19:55:56

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...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 25? from 2019-09-25T19:57:09

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. Al...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 24? from 2019-09-24T20:03:50

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 ...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 23? from 2019-09-23T19:44:50

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...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 19? from 2019-09-19T20:26:06

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 Hu...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 18? from 2019-09-18T19:34:17

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 c...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 17? from 2019-09-17T19:40:23

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 misdem...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 13? from 2019-09-13T20:05:51

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 ch...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 12? from 2019-09-12T20:00:47

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...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 11? from 2019-09-11T20:19:39

2001

September 11th attacks on the US.

9 AD

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. 

1297

Scots under William Wallace and An...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 10? from 2019-09-10T19:51:37

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 Brit...

Hollow Leg History | What Happened on This Date, September 6? from 2019-09-06T19:48:06

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, 15...

Hollow Leg History | September 5 from 2019-09-05T19:31:40

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 th...

Hollow Leg History | September 4 from 2019-09-04T20:22:03

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...

Hollow Leg History | September 3 from 2019-09-03T20:19:46

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. Listen

Hollow Leg History | August 29 from 2019-08-29T20:00:33

70

The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege. In victory, the Romans slaughtered thousands. Of those spared from death, they were enslaved and sent to toil in the mines...

Hollow Leg History | August 28 from 2019-08-28T19:42:32

1609 

English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay. He will go on to claim it for the Dutch East India Company.

1898

Pharmacist Caleb Bradham has ...

Hollow Leg History | August 27 from 2019-08-27T19:28:49

1776

The Battle of Brooklyn. During the American Revolution, British forces under General William Howe defeat Patriot forces under General George Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn in N...

Hollow Leg History | August 26 from 2019-08-26T19:49:53

1071

Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manzikert, Eastern Turkey. The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV play...

Hollow Leg History | August 23 from 2019-08-23T19:59:49

1305

Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London. 

1754

Louis XVI, King of France during the French Revolution, is born. Louis ...

Hollow Leg History | August 22 from 2019-08-22T20:05:17

1138 

English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire. Banners of various saints carried into battle - led to the name Battle of the Standard. The Scottish forces would lose 3/...

Hollow Leg History | August 20 from 2019-08-20T20:05:08

636

Battle of Yarmouk. The result of the battle was a complete Muslim victory which ended Roman rule in Syria. The Battle of Yarmouk is regarded as one of the most decisive battles in mil...

Hollow Leg History | August 19 from 2019-08-19T20:06:22

1274 

Edward I is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey after returning from the Ninth Crusade.

1692

Five women are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being co...

Hollow Leg History | August 16 from 2019-08-16T20:19:10

1777 - American militiamen defeat British forces at the Battle of Bennington near Vermont, during the American Revolutionary War.

1780 - American troops are badly defeated by the British ...

Hollow Leg History | August 15th from 2019-08-15T20:10:14

Welcome to the pilot episode of Hollow Leg History. Tune in daily to learn about events that happened on this day.

Hollow Leg Baseball | Trade deadline! July 31, 2019! from 2019-08-01T02:09:44

We go over the trades made this month and discuss who's going where and how that will impact the playoff race.