“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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 23 days 14 hours 22 minutes
episode 156: National Soccer Hall of Famer Willy Roy
Though he was born in Germany and still retains the distinctive vocal stylings to prove it, National Soccer Hall of Fame player/coach great Willy Roy has always been a Chicago kid in both heart and heritage. A post-WWII transplant to the...
episode 155: The Continental Basketball Association’s Albany Patroons – With Brendan Casey
With the entirety of pro sports in unprecedented lock-down mode, we offer some respite with a rewind back to the curiously borderline major league Continental Basketball Association (1946-2009), and one of its most successful franchises – the...
episode 154: The National Women’s Football League’s Houston Herricanes – With Olivia Kuan
Hollywood cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Olivia Kuan () joins to discuss the revealing story of the Houston "Herricanes" of the pioneering National Women’s Football League (1974-88) – and their overlooked role in the historically rich...
episode 153: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – With Anika Orrock
Award-winning illustrator, cartoonist and unwitting baseball historian Anika Orrock () joins to discuss her delightfully visual take on the pioneering circuit that not only helped save America’s pastime – but also became the forerunner of women's...
episode 152: The Senior Professional Baseball Association – With Peter Golenbock
Spring training is finally under way, and we celebrate the National Pastime with a return visit to the 1989-90 curiosity known as the Senior Professional Baseball Association – with one of its few dedicated chroniclers, prolific sports author Peter...
episode 151: “God Save the (Wichita) Wings” – With Adam Knapp & Mike Romalis
We gear up for this week’s world premiere of – the long-awaited documentary about one of the original Major Indoor Soccer League’s most improbable success stories – with co-producers Adam Knapp () and Mike Romalis (). The Wichita Wings were...
Major League Baseball Expansion – With Fran Zimniuch
Baseball writer Fran Zimniuch (Baseball's New Frontier: A History of Expansion, 1961-1998) help us sketch out a nearly forty-year survey of the major leagues’ fitful journey from a regional set of 16 teams confined to just ten US Northeast and...
“America’s” Soccer League – With Steve Holroyd
Society for American Soccer History board director Steve Holroyd returns to help us decipher the last decade of the enigmatic second incarnation of the American Soccer League (1933-1983) – the longest-lasting “professional” soccer circuit in US...
episode 148: The NHL’s Atlanta Flames (& More!) – With Dan Bouchard
For 1970s-era NHL hockey fans who remember the eight-year adventure known as the Atlanta Flames, few are likely to forget Dan Bouchard. A tenacious, slightly eccentric and occasionally fight-prone French-Canadian goalie, “Bouch” was an...
episode 147: The Dodgers & Giants Bolt West – With Lincoln Mitchell
Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams – the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants – left the city they had called home since the 1880s and headed west to the Golden State of California. The dramatic departure and bold...