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Top Ten Reasons Baseball is a Weird Sport
1 If a batter fails two-thirds of the time, they’re still considered an excellent batter. It’s too bad this standard isn’t applied to everything else in life.
2 It is legal to “steal” in this game. This is, perhaps, a questionable example for children.
3 If you aren’t such a good hitter, you can have a pinch hitter bat for you. If you aren’t such a fast runner, you can have someone—a pinch runner—come in and run for you. At what point, you might wonder, is a team entirely comprised of “pinch” players?
4 There’s a rule preventing pitchers from spitting on the ball. They can spit anywhere else they like, apparently.
5 If a batter walks with the bases loaded, he is credited with an RBI (Run Batted In). That’s right: even though he didn’t hit the ball.
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You May Be a Baseball FANatic, IF…
- You subscribe to Baseball Weekly during the off-season.
- You go to amateur ballgames (Little League, softball, etc.) even though you don’t know anyone on the teams.
- Many of your summertime meals seem to consist of $6 hotdogs, $5 nachos and $4 cokes.
- You’re still looking for that Todd van Poppel rookie card.
- The last time you flew across country you planned a stop in Chicago so you could go to Wrigley Field.
- You own a copy of the Official Baseball Rulebook. And you understand the Infield Fly and Balk rules.
- You’ve ever scored a game.
- You’re still carrying on a feud with your neighbor over whether Ichiro should have been eligible for Rookie of the Year.
- You know who pitched the seventh game of the ‘68 World Series.
- You have Spring Training season tickets.
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