At Long Last: The Cavaliers, the Warriors and the Cubs

05/03/20 • 26 min

You spend a lifetime as the long-suffering fan of a losing team. It shapes who you are. And then: They win it all! Authors Scott Raab ("The Whore of Akron," "You're Welcome, Cleveland") on the Cleveland Cavaliers and Barry Gifford ("In the Neighborhood of Baseball," "Wild at Heart") on the Chicago Cubs. Plus: Host King Kaufman visits yet another championship parade for his once-hapless Golden State Warriors. Originally published Oct. 14, 2017.

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Casey Stengel: How to Learn By Losing

With the Yankees in the '50s, he had the greatest run in managerial history. But before that, Casey Stengel skippered a series of relentlessly terrible teams. Host King Kaufman asks: Did the Old Perfessor learn to win by losing? Plus: What if the worst player on the worst team in a league met the best player on the best team in that league 40 years later? And what if one of those guys was the host of a podcast about losing? King Kaufman meets Vince Beringhele. Originally published Oct. 7, 2017.

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