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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, July 28, 2010Joe Posnanski: Hall of Fame Comps I think I’m going to start writing
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Posted: July 28, 2010 at 10:53 AM | 12 comment(s)
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FOR ETERNITY.
"Hi, I'm [dub] 20th century baseball player [/dub] Fred McGriff! I want to teach you [dub] citizens of Moon Base Europa [/dub] how to play baseball [dub] in order to properly honor our Sino-Plutonian overlords [/dub]."
Couldn't Smith be something of a handful when he had a point to make? I remember that when he was playing in Japan, he went onto the field one day with his uniform on backwards.
I'm not convinced that it's all that "hard" to invent. Players standing around having a catch will invariably get to stupid ways to throw the ball, including throwing it without spin. From there, it's not far to figuring out the best way to throw it without spin.
It's kind of like being amazed at the leap from blue-green algae to humans, without thinking about all the intermediate steps.
If Poz would expand his horizons a bit and tout an organization with actual imagination behind it, the world would be a better place. By focusing on moribund, metastatized entities such as the HoF, however, he simply joins the vast legions of colleagues and readers who are content to tread water.
All in all, a rather lacklustre piece. Brightest spot: the "newsflash" that Keith Law is taking a beating from his readers.
Nice work sidestepping the racist label there, Poz. :-)
And Frank Howard is a good addition. Once Frank got rolling when the strike zone was adjusted he caused pitchers nightsweats. And clearly he TOWERED over everyone.
Was it fear or was it that first base was unoccupied so often after all of Mays' doubles and triples?
I think Jim Ray Hart's injuries had more to do with his IBBs.
Giant #5 hitters hit .214/.314/.336 in 1969. You can see why it would be attractive to walk the best hitter in the league any time it was legal (particularly since the guys hitting 6 through 8 were terrible too. And they had lousy hitting pitchers if it matters). By the end of the year they had moved Bonds to 5th (where he hit .237/.378/.517 in 148 PAs -- which means the others hit .209/.297/.291 (!) ).
Joe was intentionally comparing Rice to non-HoFers, to make his point.
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