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AN AMBIDEXTROUS PITCHER SUCCEEDS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.
AN AMBIDEXTROUS PITCHER SUCCEEDS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. This article by Jane Lee on the MLB site describes how, in an amazing first, Pat Venditte pitched two scoreless innings in the major leagues using his left arm to pitch to … Continue reading
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JOEY VOTTO TAKES A THREE BALL WALK!
JOEY VOTTO TAKES A THREE BALL WALK! I have posted several times, including here, about instances when major league umpires have lost track of the count of balls and strikes and have let a batter take a base on balls … Continue reading
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CHILDREN SHOULD PLAY MORE PICK UP BALL GAMES.
CHILDREN SHOULD PLAY MORE PICK UP BALL GAMES. I posted here about how a cross country coach won a lot of state championships by encouraging as many runners as possible to be on the team. The more participants, the greater … Continue reading
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“EXPLAINING WHY CHILDREN ARE ABANDONING BASEBALL”.
“EXPLAINING WHY CHILDREN ARE ABANDONING BASEBALL”. Brian Costa had an article in the Wall Street Journal (May 21) with the headline “Why Children Are Abandoning Baseball”. The decline is not reflected in the “travel teams” for the best players. The … Continue reading
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TAKING A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF CRICKET.
TAKING A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF CRICKET. The Economist (April 25) had a fine obituary describing Richard (Richie) Benaud, a great cricket player (captain for Australia), and later a star commentator on cricket. The last paragraph of the obituary is a … Continue reading
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BASEBALL GETS MORE DATA.
BASEBALL GETS MORE DATA. Major league baseball is introducing Statcast, a new stat provider that uses a series of high-resolution optical cameras along with radar equipment to precisely track the location and movements of the ball and every player on … Continue reading
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A WAY TO MAKE BASEBALL HIGH SCORING LIKE FOOTBALL.
A WAY TO MAKE BASEBALL HIGH SCORING LIKE FOOTBALL. Jo Craven McGinty had an excellent article in “The Numbers” section of the Wall Street Journal (April 11-12) taking on the question: “is baseball really dying in the shadow of its … Continue reading
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THE KENDRICK PERKINS NINE STEP TRAVEL.
THE KENDRICK PERKINS NINE STEP TRAVEL. Nick sent me this video of a nine step travel by Kendrick Perkins. (For nonfans, it is enough to know that if a player isn’t dribbling, he must keep one foot fixed (the pivot … Continue reading
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THE RED DOT.
THE RED DOT. For many years, I have heard about the red dot on the baseball that a batter is supposed to see when a slider comes out of a pitcher’s hand. There was even a phenom whose success was … Continue reading
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HOW FANTASY BASEBALL HAS GOTTEN BETTER OVER TIME.
HOW FANTASY BASEBALL HAS GOTTEN BETTER OVER TIME. Will Leitch writes here: “… the one thing in my life that I can say, with 100 percent certainty, has gotten nothing but better every single year since it began to exist … Continue reading