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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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353.6: NASL Soccer's Chief Architect Clive Toye [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

353.6: NASL Soccer's Chief Architect Clive Toye [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

[By popular request, an archive re-release from August 2018, featuring our extraordinary conversation with one of the central figures of the original North American Soccer League - from its chaotic f…

01:45:05  |   Mon 15 Jul 2024
353.5: The Senior Professional Baseball Association - With David Whitford [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

353.5: The Senior Professional Baseball Association - With David Whitford [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

[An archive re-release favorite from September 2017, featuring one of professional baseball's most enigmatic leagues!]

Inc. Editor-at-Large David Whitford (Extra Innings: A Season in the Senior Leagu…

01:09:46  |   Mon 08 Jul 2024
353: The NASL v. US Soccer/MLS Case - With Steven Bank

353: The NASL v. US Soccer/MLS Case - With Steven Bank

Most US and Canadian domestic soccer fans are certain that the second incarnation of the North American Soccer League (2011-17) officially met its untimely demise in early 2018, just a few months af…
01:33:06  |   Mon 01 Jul 2024
352: An Appreciation of Vin Scully  - With Tom Hoffarth

352: An Appreciation of Vin Scully - With Tom Hoffarth

We celebrate the legendary career and outsized influence of one of baseball's most recognized voices, with veteran LA sportswriter Tom Hoffarth (Perfect Eloquence: An Appreciation of Vin Scully). Fr…
01:18:32  |   Mon 24 Jun 2024
351: The Origin Story of ESPN  - With Peter Fox

351: The Origin Story of ESPN - With Peter Fox

It's time to fire up the old Jerrold cable box for a trip back to the pre-launch and early first on-air days of cable TV's pioneering Entertainment and Sports Programming Network - better known as ES…
01:16:44  |   Mon 17 Jun 2024
350: The

350: The "Father of Modern Baseball" - With Tom Delise & Jay Seaborg

First-time sports historians Tom Delise and Jay Seaborg ("Foxy Ned Hanlon: The Baseball Life of a Hall of Fame Manager") join the podcast for a biographical look at one of baseball's most innovative …

01:23:11  |   Mon 10 Jun 2024
349: The Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge - With Kassia St. Clair

349: The Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge - With Kassia St. Clair

Cultural historian and best-selling British author Kassia St. Clair ("The Secret Lives of Color"; "The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History")  joins the podcast for a look back at the fascinatin…
01:15:34  |   Mon 03 Jun 2024
348.5: Sports Promoter Doug Verb [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

348.5: Sports Promoter Doug Verb [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

[An essential fan favorite from 2018 - with the dean of "forgotten sports" promotion!] 

If someone ever decides to build an American sports promotion Hall of Fame, the inaugural class will undoubtedl…

03:06:37  |   Mon 27 May 2024
348: The Tragic Season of 1946's Spokane Indians - With Eric Vickrey

348: The Tragic Season of 1946's Spokane Indians - With Eric Vickrey

Baseball historian and Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) contributor Eric Vickrey ("Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed …
01:15:13  |   Mon 20 May 2024
347.5: The North American Soccer League - With Paul Gardner

347.5: The North American Soccer League - With Paul Gardner

We celebrate the 94th birthday of legendary Soccer America columnist Paul Gardner (The Simplest Game: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to the World of Soccer; Soccer Talk: Paul Gardner on Soccer) with thi…

01:33:43  |   Mon 13 May 2024
347: Powering Forward - With Dean Tolson

347: Powering Forward - With Dean Tolson

During the late 1960s, Dean Tolson ("Power Forward: My Journey from Illiterate NBA Player to a Magna Cum Laude Master's Degree") emerged as a standout prep basketball talent during his junior and sen…
01:20:34  |   Mon 06 May 2024
346: Roller Derby's Los Angeles Thunderbirds - With Scott Stephens

346: Roller Derby's Los Angeles Thunderbirds - With Scott Stephens

It's our first journey into the chaotically exciting history of "professional" roller derby with former skater and long-time keeper-of-the-flame Scott Stephens ("Rolling Thunder: The Golden Age of Ro…
01:43:56  |   Mon 29 Apr 2024
345: From Vancouver to Memphis - With Łukasz Muniowski

345: From Vancouver to Memphis - With Łukasz Muniowski

It's a special mea culpa episode this week, as we welcome back Szczecin University (Poland) history professor and Episode 289 guest Łukasz Muniowski (Turnpike Team: A History of the New Jersey Nets …
01:25:16  |   Mon 22 Apr 2024
344.5: The NFL’s 1943 “Steagles” - With Matt Algeo [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

344.5: The NFL’s 1943 “Steagles” - With Matt Algeo [ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE]

[A dip into the archives for a one of our first-ever episodes from 2017 - by request!]

Author Matt Algeo (Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles – "The Steagles" – Saved Pro Football Dur…

00:56:01  |   Sun 14 Apr 2024
344:  The Evolution of Sports Media - With David Bockino

344: The Evolution of Sports Media - With David Bockino

Former ESPN ad researcher, and current Elon University professor of communications and sport management David Bockino (Game On: How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of F…
01:26:12  |   Mon 08 Apr 2024
343:  Baseball History Landmarks - With Chris Epting

343: Baseball History Landmarks - With Chris Epting

We reach back into the vaunted Good Seats library stacks this week for a deep dive into one of Tim's favorite sports reference books - Roadside Baseball: The Locations of America's Baseball Landmarks
01:18:47  |   Mon 01 Apr 2024
342.5 [PROMO DROP]

342.5 [PROMO DROP] "Ways To Win"

Sharing something special, an episode of the new podcast "Ways to Win" - where coaches Craig Robinson and John Calipari use their on-court wisdom to solve off-court problems.

In this first episode (r…

00:51:48  |   Tue 26 Mar 2024
342:

342: "Boston Ball" - With Clayton Trutor

We bust some brackets this week in honor of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, with a look back at the old East Coast Athletic Conference and the coaching cradle of city of Boston - wit…
01:32:01  |   Mon 25 Mar 2024
341:

341: "Pro" Wrestling's Origin Story - With Jon Langmead

We squint hard this week for a look into the story of American "professional" wrestling's formative years - with pop culture writer Jon Langmead (Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen …
01:17:47  |   Mon 18 Mar 2024
340: Baseball's

340: Baseball's "New York Game" - With Kevin Baker

Harper's Contributing Editor and novelist/historian extraordinaire Kevin Baker ("The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City") brings his blended affection for (and evocative portrayals of…
01:06:43  |   Mon 11 Mar 2024
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