Good Seats Still Available

“Good Seats Still Available” is a curious little podcast devoted to the exploration of what used-to-be in professional sports. Each week, host Tim Hanlon interviews former players, owners, broadcasters, beat reporters, and surprisingly famous "super fans" of teams and leagues that have come and gone - in an attempt to unearth some of the most wild and woolly moments in (often forgotten) sports history.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 89 minutes
Episodes: 446
Years Active: 2017 - 2025

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254: American League Baseball Expansion/Relocation History - With Andy McCue

Long-time Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) contributor and "Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion" author Andy McCue joins the podcast to disc…

01:23:40 | Mon 28 Mar 2022

253: "Out of Their League" - With Dave Meggyesy

A pro football player who protests against the actions of his government, is shunned by the league establishment, and eventually winds up out of the game, working for social justice. No, it's …

01:39:35 | Mon 21 Mar 2022

252.5: The TVS Television Network - With Howard Zuckerman [Archive Re-Release]

[A September 2017 archive re-release favorite with the production wizard behind behind early network TV coverage of the World Football League & North American Soccer League of the 1970s!]

On January …

01:17:47 | Mon 14 Mar 2022

252: "A False Spring" - With Pat Jordan

Pat Jordan grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut where, in the mid-1950s, he became a highly pursued pro baseball prospect as a young pitching phenom in local Little League and as a high school ace at Fa…

02:08:37 | Mon 07 Mar 2022

251: The Indoor Soccer Travails of Keith Tozer

We traverse a fascinating litany of top-tier North American professional indoor soccer leagues with pioneering player, record-setting coach and now, current Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) commissio…

01:26:24 | Mon 28 Feb 2022

250: Arena Football's New York Dragons - With Gregg Sarra

We reminisce about the original Arena Football League and its curious dalliances with the New York metropolitan area, with veteran Newsday sports writer/columnist Gregg Sarra - who not only regularly…

01:39:05 | Mon 21 Feb 2022

249: New York Cosmos Soccer - With Werner Roth

It's another bucket-list conversation with one of Tim's favorite players from the legendary New York Cosmos of the original North American Soccer League - defender extraordinaire (and de facto club …

02:08:23 | Mon 14 Feb 2022

248.5: Baseball’s Continental League - With Professor Russ Buhite [Archive Re-Release]

[We dig out from last week's major winter storm with a fan-favorite Archive Re-Release from 2018!]

By the summer of 1959, the absence of two former National League franchises from what was once a vib…

01:24:50 | Mon 07 Feb 2022

248: 2004's Pro Cricket - With Steve Holroyd

Fresh off his appearance on last month's Year-End Holiday Roundtable Spectacular, fellow defunct sports enthusiast Steve Holroyd returns to the show for a dive into the deep end of the "forgotten sp…

01:32:19 | Mon 31 Jan 2022

247: The St. Louis Browns - With Ed Wheatley

After hiding in plain sight for the better part of five years, we finally take an initial swing at the deeply fascinating story of baseball's original "lovable losers" - the St. Louis Browns. St. L…

01:35:52 | Mon 24 Jan 2022

246: The Pittsburgh Maulers - With Tom Rooney

As we continue to debate the general wisdom of resurrecting the intellectual property of the original short-lived 1980s version of the United States Football League - as well as question the viabilit…

01:14:50 | Mon 17 Jan 2022

245: Integrating the Negro Leagues - With Sean Forman

We geek out this week with Sports Reference, LLC founder and president Sean Forman ("The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues: Essays and Research for Overdue Recognition") for an inside look into the co…

01:17:06 | Mon 10 Jan 2022

244: "Dixieball" - With Thomas Aiello

Valdosta State University Professor of History and African American Studies Thomas Aiello ("Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South") joins our first podcast of the New Year - w…

01:54:43 | Mon 03 Jan 2022

243.6: Arena Football League Founder Jim Foster - Part Two [Archive Re-Release]

[More holiday fun with a re-release of a fan favorite episode from January 2018!]

We conclude our two-part journey into the early history of the Arena Football League with founder and inventor Jim Fo…

01:47:03 | Mon 27 Dec 2021

243.5: Arena Football League Founder Jim Foster [Archive Re-Release]

[We celebrate the holidays with a re-release of a fan favorite episode from January 2018!]

As the new year beckons, the fate of the Arena Football League – one of America’s most innovative modern-day…

02:18:48 | Mon 20 Dec 2021

243: The 3rd Annual Year-End Holiday Roundtable Spectacular!

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