What a weird week it’s been in baseball. Bees, cats and sausages are only the tip of the iceberg. Beanballs in Philly before a game, the Rockies refuse to take the lead and blue collar baseball cards are now a thing. But this is a baseball history podcast, so let’s talk about Brad Lesley. The Animal played briefly in MLB, but he became a star both on the field and on the silver screen once he moved to Japan. A mixture of professional wrestler and fireball closer, Lesley was our kind of guy.
Game two of Wax Pack Heroes is a great one if you’re a fan of manager cards. Somebody has to be a fan of manager cards, right?

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A week late but never a nug short. This episode is all about April 20th. Who has the best 420 name in baseball history? Who was the best player to debut on 420? How good was the real Lil Stoner and how much would he make in endorsements today? We crunch the numbers and do the math. The new season of Wax Pack Heroes is here! Extra wax this season.

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We finally did it, we’re gonna talk baseball AND wrestling this week in honor of WrestleMania. Helping us in two time guest, author Brad Balukjian who has another book, The Six Pack that follows a similar to his first book The Wax Pack. But it’s not all body slams and choke slams, we also talk about minor league promotions, a team full of George Constanza’s, Kenny Lofton learned who the real Man of Steal was from Ron Washington and the long line of Giants Left Fielders. We also open up a pack of baseball card with Brad as The Wax Pack takes on Wax Pack Heroes.

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Our final spring training episode we’re ready to start the season. We dug up a Jorge Posada highlight we had never seen before as well as listen to a Boomer from the 80’s saying Boomer things about baseball, our show fact is pretty heavy but still good with a bat and we have our first debut of the season!
Our main segment we talk about a Negro League player we’ve never talked about before, little known WW1 veterans in the big leagues, highlight some historic NPB things that later showed up in MLB and ofcourse some Seinfeld talk.
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Joey Votto is back! He’s a man of the people and we’re here for it. We also hear a story from Will Clark about some guy stealing bases, find out what cigarettes the 1934 World Champions smoke, listen to Keith Hernandez learn about Mets jerseys in real time and learn a couple of 244 facts.
This week’s main story is about Bob Caruthers, he was Shohei Ohtani 135 years before Shohei Ohtani. He won 40 games multiple times on the mound while leading the league in on base with the bat. He also gave birth to a great team nickname and just might be responsible for the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.
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Still spring training but we’re in mid season form. This week we tackle the hard hitting topics in baseball like reviewing Lance Parrish’ appearance on Different Strokes, Dwayne Murphy still getting paid by MC Hammer, George Brett wants a bathroom upgrade from Royals Stadium and does singing the national anthem before a game really matter?
Our main topic this week is all about George Burns. Not the actor, but the baseball player he actually took his stage name from. A MVP and great hitter Mark has one of the greatest stories of the dangers of foul balls at baseball games can be!
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We’re back louder than ever after a week off with the first Lars Nootbaar update of the year, NCAA baseball HBP’s, a new Manny being Manny story, possible expansion city talk (with bonus state capitols)and MLBPA discounts. Our main story this week we look at Hack Wilson. We’ve referenced him plenty but know we get to know about him. He could hit the baseball, a person or the bottle equally as hard. 
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Spring  training has begun but we’re already in midseason form. The Savanna Bananas had a new player but nobody could see him, Tommy Pham likes fantasy football more than the actual game apparently, Jeff Ballard’s IMDB page is better than we expected and some huge Blue Jays news.
Our main segment this week is a lyric by lyric breakdown of the 1990 criminally overlooked rap by the Cincinnati Reds, Reds Hot. Barry Larkin gathered some of the best baseball players but worst rappers he could find to lay down some sick beats about staying in school, not doing drugs and kicking ass. It appears Chris Sabo was able to sneak into the studio and get in some lines as well. 

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Not a Valentine’s episode but you’re going to love our special list. We found the new season of Banana Ball has some interesting new rules, we track Dan Uggla’s social media past, figure out where the Expos are going to play when they return and remember some baseball players who played basketball as well as baseball.
For our main segment we’re cleaning out the closet. That means a bunch of short stories we wrote down and then forgot about. But it gives us the opportunity to talk about some more Negro League legends, Barry Bonds and ofcourse Skip Pitlock?
Could this be the week when this season of Wax Pack Heroes is wrapped up? 

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This week we celebrate one of the worst baseball owners selling the team (do Oakland next!!!!), update the Jackie Robinson statue saga, catch up on some of Barry Bonds hobbies after baseball and find some live baseball with bonus handlebar mustaches. Our main topic this week is about NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird. We’re a basketball podcast now! Just kidding, but Larry played baseball at one point for one game in college. We’ve got all the info on it and learn about the last bare knuckle boxing champ who also played baseball!
Could this be the week we crown a new Wax Pack Heroes champ? Let’s hope so.

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Covid strikes again, but we fight through it for another episode, a little later than expected. So much to catch up on from MLB! A former pitcher involved in an extra martial affair (shocked!), a former first baseman running for Congress poorly (shocked!), bad food in a major league clubhouse, two fan fests for teams that no longer reside in cities put on by fans, Hall of Fame reactions, Fantasy Camp stories and all the uniform news you could possibly ever ask for heading into the 2024 season. 
The Wax Pack Heroes season threatens to come to a close as Jeff is running rough shot all over Mark, making a mockery of this WPH season, blowing through the competition like the 2023 Mets blew through the luxury tax thresh hold. 

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