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Misc. Baseball
http://miscbaseball.wordpress.com/
Gathering up assorted interesting items of baseball anecdotes and history, mostly from the '80s.
- Added on: Mar 7th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: arnec
- Listed in: Baseball Sports
- Tags: baseball history baseball trivia baseball anecdotes 1980s baseball
Recent Posts
1876: The Cubs’ First Game Ever
Here’s the Chicago Tribune headline for the Cubs’ first game ever, played on Tuesday, April 25, 1876: And the box score: The box score’s hard to read, but the Cubs won 4-0, scoring in the second, third, fourth, and seventh innings...
Rickey Henderson in Boise in 1976
Despite playing an outstanding center field and hitting about .336, Rickey Henderson didn’t make the 1976 Northwest League All-Star Team. It was his first year in professional baseball, playing for the Boise A’s at age 17. Apparently it w...
Criticizing Sabermetrics in the Early ’80s
The following are two excerpts from journalism on sabermetrics in the early 1980s. I reprint them here because they display two of the major themes that have apparently come up in criticisms of sabermetrics from the very beginning on up to today. Thi...
The 1982 Bill James Baseball Abstract
Bryan Johnson, a Toronto Globe and Mail writer who had, apparently, been the paper’s drama expert in the late ’70s, reviewed this book in this way: Until this year, there were two distinct classes of baseball fans: the great huddled mass...
The Seattle Mariners’ First Game
It came on Wednesday, April 6, 1977, with venerable Diego Segui, the Ancient Mariner, battling the Angels’ Frank Tanana. And it was not auspicious: Segui allowed six runs, four earned, in three and two-thirds innings as the Mariners lost 7-0 (t...
The Seattle Pilots’ First Game at Sicks Stadium
After a last-minute rush to install as many seats in the new right-field bleachers at Sicks Stadium as the Pilots could, opening day at the stadium happened on Friday, April 11, 1969. Lew Matlin, head of stadium operations for the Pilots: “Work...
