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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 89 minutes
- Episodes
- 446
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
045: The ABA’s Indiana Pacers with Sportswriter Mark Montieth – Part Two
Veteran sportswriter Mark Montieth (Reborn: The Pacers and the Return of Pro Basketball to Indianapolis) returns to the podcast (Episode #41) to help complete the story of the Indiana Pacers’ nine-ye…
044: Arena Football League Founder Jim Foster - Part Two
We conclude our two-part journey into the early history of the Arena Football League with founder and inventor Jim Foster, who recounts some of the most notable events of the league’s formative years…
043: Arena Football League Founder Jim Foster
As the new year beckons, the fate of the Arena Football League – one of America’s most innovative modern-day professional sports concepts – hangs in the balance. With only four teams (the mutually-o…
042: Entertainer Pat Boone and the ABA’s Oakland Oaks
We usher in the holidays and round out our debut season with the inimitable Pat Boone – an American entertainment legend and inveterate business entrepreneur, with a life-long passion for the sport o…
042: Entertainer Pat Boone and the ABA’s Oakland Oaks
We usher in the holidays and round out our debut season with the inimitable Pat Boone – an American entertainment legend and inveterate business entrepreneur, with a life-long passion for the sport o…
041: ABA Basketball’s Indiana Pacers with Sportswriter Mark Montieth
Long-time Indianapolis pro hoops beat reporter Mark Montieth (Reborn: The Pacers and the Return of Pro Basketball to Indianapolis) joins host Tim Hanlon to delve into the intriguing story behind the …
040: The Three Acts of Pro Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes with Columnist Gary Singh
Long-time Metro Silicon Valley columnist and San Jose, California native Gary Singh (The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy) joins host Tim Hanlon to discuss the confusing journey and thre…
039: The Continental Indoor Soccer League’s Indianapolis Twisters with Broadcaster Kenn Tomasch
Former sportscaster and fellow defunct pro sports enthusiast Kenn Tomasch joins host Tim Hanlon to dig deep into the two-season saga of the Indiana (née Indianapolis) Twisters of the Continental Indo…
038: Women’s Professional Baseball with Film Producer/Director Jon Leonoudakis
Documentary film producer/director Jon Leonoudakis (The Wrecking Crew!) joins Tim Hanlon to discuss Season Three of his digital video series The Sweet Spot: A Treasury of Baseball Stories – devoted t…
037: The NHL’s California Golden Seals with Author Steve Currier
Ice hockey makes its long-awaited return to the podcast, as host Tim Hanlon revisits the legendarily forlorn California Golden Seals franchise of the late 1960s/early 1970s National Hockey League, wi…
036: Dead-Ball-Era Baseball’s “Chief” Meyers & the New York Giants with Author Bill Young
Author/historian Bill Young (John Tortes “Chief” Meyers: A Baseball Biography) returns to the podcast to discuss the life and legacy of one of Major League Baseball’s most intriguing personalities f…
035: National Soccer Hall of Famer Paul Child
Former NASL, MISL, CISL (and even ASL) soccer great Paul Child becomes the fifth National Soccer Hall of Famer to join the podcast – and regales host Tim Hanlon with a bevy of eyebrow-raising anecdot…
034: The National Basketball League with Author Murry Nelson
Basketball historian and Penn State professor emeritus Murry Nelson (The National Basketball League: A History) returns to the podcast – this time to dive into the deep end of one of the modern-day N…
033: Early Baseball’s National Association with Author Bill Ryczek
Author Bill Ryczek (Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball’s National Association) makes a return visit to the podcast – this time to regale host Tim Hanlon in the intriguing story of t…
032: Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Braves with Documentarian/Writer Bill Povletich
The lineage behind what is today’s Atlanta Braves is one of the longest, deepest and most uniquely enduring in all of professional baseball. With early roots dating back to the launch of 1871’s Nati…
031: Indoor Soccer’s Wichita Wings with Mike Romalis and Tim O’Bryhim
Wichita, Kansas natives Mike Romalis and Tim O’Bryhim (Make This Town Big: The Story of Roy Turner and the Wichita Wings) join host Tim Hanlon to talk about their current book – and upcoming document…
030: The Senior Professional Baseball Association with Author David Whitford
Inc. Editor-at-Large David Whitford (Extra Innings: A Season in the Senior League) joins host Tim Hanlon to retrace his journalistic odyssey covering the inaugural season of the short-lived, Florida-…
029: The American Soccer League’s Cincinnati Comets with Writer/Photographer Ronny Salerno
While the meteoric rise of the United Soccer League’s FC Cincinnati franchise caught many pro sports observers by surprise, keen observers of soccer’s unique history in the Queen City note that the f…
028: Women’s Pro Basketball’s “Machine Gun” Molly Kazmer
The history of women’s professional basketball in the US pre-dates the modern-day WNBA by at least two decades, when inveterate pro sports entrepreneur Bill Byrne launched the Women’s Professional Ba…
027: Jim Thorpe’s Oorang Indians with NFL Films’ Chris Willis
At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, the National Football League was a mere footnote in the American sports scene, when matchups were played on dirt fields by vagabond athletes who would beat up or …