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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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391: The NASL's Chicago Sting (& More!) - With Karl-Heinz Granitza

391: The NASL's Chicago Sting (& More!) - With Karl-Heinz Granitza

Live and direct from Pottsdam, it's the one-and-only Karl-Heinz Granitza — the prolific German striker who became the face of the North American Soccer League's iconic Chicago Sting -- and a transfo…

02:00:47  |   Mon 21 Apr 2025
390: Sports Broadcaster Jim Lampley

390: Sports Broadcaster Jim Lampley

It's a bucket-list conversation this week with legendary sports broadcaster Jim Lampley as he shares insights and anecdotes from his new memoir, "It Happened!: A Uniquely Lucky Life in Sports Televi…

01:58:41  |   Mon 14 Apr 2025
389: The 1925 NFL Champion(?) Pottsville Maroons - With David Fleming

389: The 1925 NFL Champion(?) Pottsville Maroons - With David Fleming

It's our long-overdue dive into one of the most controversial stories in National Football League history — the tale of the Pottsville Maroons and its stolen 1925 championship — with ESPN journalist…

01:44:02  |   Mon 07 Apr 2025
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388: "1978: Baseball & America in the Disco Era" - With David Krell

We boot up our trusty Flux Capacitor this week for a trip back to 1978 -- a year when baseball provided a much-needed escape for a nation in flux. We sit down with David Krell, author of "1978: Base…

01:20:03  |   Mon 31 Mar 2025
387: The BAA, NBL & the Merger That Created the NBA - With Josh Elias

387: The BAA, NBL & the Merger That Created the NBA - With Josh Elias

Sports historian Josh Elias stops by for a deep unraveling of the often misunderstood story behind the 1949 merger that created the National Basketball Association (NBA) as we know it today. 

Drawi…

01:46:43  |   Mon 24 Mar 2025
386: The NHL's Unlikely First Season - With Bob Duff

386: The NHL's Unlikely First Season - With Bob Duff

We go North of the border this week for the curious story of the dramatic and chaotic origins of the National Hockey League with hockey historian and long-time Windsor Star sports columnist Bob Duff

01:27:52  |   Mon 17 Mar 2025
385: Batavia's Baseball

385: Batavia's Baseball "Homestand" - With Will Bardenwerper

America’s pastime has long been more than just a game - it’s a reflection of the country itself. But what happens when the heart and soul of small-town baseball is threatened by the forces of modern …

01:28:57  |   Mon 10 Mar 2025
384: Basketball's Nomadic Nets - With Rick Laughland

384: Basketball's Nomadic Nets - With Rick Laughland

Strap in and try to keep up, as we attempt to follow the peripatetic 58-year journey of one of the NBA's most wandering franchises - with New York-area sports beat reporter Rick Laughland ("A Histor…

01:48:41  |   Mon 03 Mar 2025
383: The Original San Jose Earthquakes - With Eric Gouldsberry

383: The Original San Jose Earthquakes - With Eric Gouldsberry

We're positively kvelling over the brand new anthology from this week's guest Eric Gouldsberry - "Our Life and Times with the Earthquakes" - which vividly (and lovingly) portrays the thrilling early …

01:21:49  |   Mon 24 Feb 2025
382: The ABA Players'

382: The ABA Players' "Waiting Game" - With Michael Husain

After a decidedly meh NBA All-Star Weekend, we rewind back to one of the league's most influential historical tributaries - the American Basketball Association (1967-76) - and the criminally little-k…

01:21:09  |   Mon 17 Feb 2025
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381: "Selling Baseball" - With Jeff Orens

We hearken back to baseball's humble beginnings this week, as author/historian Jeff Orens ("Selling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America") takes us o…

01:36:34  |   Mon 10 Feb 2025
380: The MISL's St. Louis Steamers (+ More!) - With Carl Rose

380: The MISL's St. Louis Steamers (+ More!) - With Carl Rose

Ain't no stoppin' us now this week as we lay down the indoor soccer turf and roll out the red carpet for one of the Major Indoor Soccer League's steeliest defenders and long-time St. Louis Steamers …

01:44:59  |   Mon 03 Feb 2025
379: Baseball's

379: Baseball's "Big Cat" - With Jerry Grillo

We throw another Duraflame into the hot stove this week for a look back at the sterling, but oddly overlooked career of one of baseball’s greatest "golden age" hitters. 

Biographer Jerry Grillo ("Big…

01:33:12  |   Mon 27 Jan 2025
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378.5: "Present At the Creation" - With Upton Bell [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

[While Tim gets off the mat after a bout with a vaccine-resistant strain of the flu this week, we go back to April 2018 for this classic ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE with the pied piper of classic football hi…

02:05:25  |   Mon 20 Jan 2025
378: US Pro Soccer's

378: US Pro Soccer's "League 1 America" - With Jim Paglia

Spurred on by a hugely intriguing article in The Athletic penned last November by Episode 274 guest Pablo Maurer (as well as another by Guardian soccer writer Jack Williams back in 2016), we delve…
01:47:23  |   Mon 13 Jan 2025
377: Baseball's Historical Concentricities - With Curt Smith

377: Baseball's Historical Concentricities - With Curt Smith

Renowned Presidential speechwriter-turned-sports-historian Curt Smith joins the podcast this week for an erudite look at the not-so-obvious concentricity between the story of baseball in America with…
01:11:57  |   Mon 06 Jan 2025
376: The 5th Annual(-ish) Year-End Holiday Roundtable Spectacular!

376: The 5th Annual(-ish) Year-End Holiday Roundtable Spectacular!

It's our year-end Holiday Roundtable Spectacular - featuring a look back at the year's newest additions to "what used-to-be" in professional sports (RIP MLB's "Oakland" Athletics & the NHL's Arizona …
01:47:34  |   Mon 30 Dec 2024
375: NASL, MISL & MLS Soccer - With National Soccer Hall of Famer Johnny Moore

375: NASL, MISL & MLS Soccer - With National Soccer Hall of Famer Johnny Moore

It's a holiday gift-wrapped conversation with American soccer pioneer and US National Soccer Hall of Famer Johnny Moore - whose professional career as a player and coach across the original versions …

01:57:24  |   Mon 23 Dec 2024
374: The NFL's Providence Steam Roller - With Greg Tranter

374: The NFL's Providence Steam Roller - With Greg Tranter

We welcome pro football historian (and Buffalo Bills memorabilia patron) Greg Tranter ("The Providence Steam Roller: New England's First NFL Team") to our microphones this week for a look back at th…

01:22:40  |   Mon 16 Dec 2024
373: The Once and Future Detroit Lions - With Bill Morris

373: The Once and Future Detroit Lions - With Bill Morris

We jump aboard this NFL season's biggest bandwagon with a look back at one of the league's most enduring, yet historically mediocre franchises - and the only club operational for the entirety of the …

01:16:32  |   Mon 09 Dec 2024
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