I was hoping I could ask the community here because I can’t find a relevant article or post about it. I grew up playing little league and high school ball back in the late 90’s through the early 2000’s. I remember that coaches, trainers, and professional ball players talked about getting the free base by leaning into a pitch. I can’t remember the players that hit in front of McGwire and Sosa but I do distinctly remember tv interviews where they prided themselves in getting hit to get on base. I wasn’t standing at the plate back then against anything close to 85+ mph, so I can factor that into todays 100 MPH average pitcher, but I did take pride in and tried to get hit by inside pitches. Is this still common practice in High school and college ball?

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Understanding that a number of teams have used the Trop as a relocation threat, it also took them 8 years to finally get a baseball tenant. It was opened two years before Camden Yards, and most stadiums in the 80s were generic cookie cutter stadiums.

But how was it viewed when it first opened? Did fans consider it a state of the art venue or was it always seen as how we looked at it in recent years?

Judge is 1 away from tying the AL record any chance he set a new one? Ohtani can become the first player with multiple MVPS in both leagues and be second to Barry Bonds if he wins 1 more.

I think Judge retires with 4 MVPS, and Ohtani gets 5

Hello!

Much like you reading this, I'm a baseball sicko. One of the things that draw me to this sport is how easy it translates to many mediums, especially storytelling through print.

I'm curious if there exists some kind of archive anywhere that you might know that has game recaps like this? Like early 1900s-present day?

Thank you!

I'm 39 years old and have been a baseball fan my whole life and I'm just now realizing I'm not sure what a first base coach does. They don't seem to have an obvious purpose.

For me it’s gotta be Cesar Izturis and runner up would be Rafael Furcal. Both both short stops that were absolute studs for the Dodgers. Izturis especially was a star and I remember watching his interview with Vin Scully during his prime with the Dodgers and Scully jokingly said the Dodgers would never let him go (which they did). But at the time he was freakin amazing.

I’ll start with Joe Charboneau.

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