Great Article by Joe Posnanski:
http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/0...r_a4&eref=sihp
Great Article by Joe Posnanski:
http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/0...r_a4&eref=sihp
Wow. Thanks a lot for posting, hc.
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What a great piece. Utterly fascinating (and finishes with a great poem!).Originally Posted by hebroncougar
“In the same way that a baseball season never really begins, it never really ends either.” - Lonnie Wheeler, "Bleachers, A Summer in Wrigley Field"
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Someone needs to finance Joe's dream of starting Baseball Magazine up again. Fascinating stuff.
I queried this same subject five years ago
http://baseballminutia.com/blog/2006...of-the-screen/
Thanks for sharing that article.
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I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.
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Love that site, I actuall have a 1914 baseball magazine in my collection, one of my prize pieces
Joe Posnanski, once again, reiterates why he is far and away the best baseball writer in America. Excellent piece.
On a related note, there seems to be pieces of sabermetrics found throughout baseball history it just really never had a name or some of the points brought up may have been part of a legitimate baseball discussion without knowing that they were talking about sabermetrics to begin with. Heck, Earl Weaver at some points in his managerial career tried to put high OBP guys at the top of his lineup. That was way before the concept of having high OBP guys in the lineup was fashionable.
Joe Poz might turn into a writer someday.....
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