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b'Steve is joined by Christopher Bonanos, author of Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous to discuss the photographic great who documented what went on in the naked city, the nighttime New York of the 1930s and 40s, after the ballplayers had put their gloves away for the day. Plus, Tom Seaver is traded as the \\u201870s Mets force a big-market team into a small-market suit, and a Dodgers fan gets ribbed with fatal results.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Mets Get Small*Toxic Dodgers Fandom and twin .45s*Christopher Bonanos: Who was Weegee?*\\u201cBalcony Seats at a Murder\\u201d*The wild New York of the 1930s*The brief, wondrous life of PM*Why doesn\\u2019t center-left media thrive?*Photographs that comment on themselves*Social justice Weegee/Misogynistic Weegee*His slow rise and rapid fall*\\u201cWhat success does for a man\\u201d*Descent into distortions*\\u201cThe Critic\\u201d (Truthful without being factual)*Darkroom in the trunk?*George Selkirk Signs!*\\u201cTheir First Murder\\u201d*Carrier pigeons at Ebbets Field*Goodbyes.

The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game\\u2019s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they\\u2019ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can\\u2019t get anybody out?'