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• Infield Positioning on the Pitch

  

  As I’ve said about 300 times on this site … “As you get older, the game gets faster.” If you are an infielder and you position yourself in one spot for right... Read more

  The 28 January 2016 by   Meachrm
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• What is Your Unfair Advantage?

  

  When I was 12 years old, I remember pitching in a game with the winning run on third base with the game all tied up. There were less than two outs and if the... Read more

  The 08 January 2016 by   Meachrm
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• If I Had a Ballot

  

  The Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of the balloting tomorrow at 6 PM, and there are 32 candidates for induction this year. Read more

  The 05 January 2016 by   Theomnipotentq
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• Dennis Eckersley and the Ubiquitous Baseball Mustache of the 80’s.

  

  Here’s Eck posing for Playboy in 1980.America’s hipsters and post-ironic trust fund kids may be growing out their mustaches now, but baseball players of the 70’... Read more

  The 26 January 2016 by   Gary
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• Updates for 2016

  

  Happy 2016!Happy New Year everyone! I wish you all health and happiness … and a great bullpen … in 2016! I am planning some changes and wanted to let all of... Read more

  The 04 January 2016 by   Meachrm
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• Carney Lansford, the Universe and Random Thoughts.

  

  After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp by the sun; there will be worlds, stars, galaxies coming into being, and they... Read more

  The 19 January 2016 by   Gary
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• “Campy” Campaneris Proves That So Called Reality Isn’t Always Truth.

  

  When people try to figure out what to believe and explain why they do, they don’t spend much time thinking about the fundamental nature of truth, knowledge, or... Read more

  The 06 January 2016 by   Gary
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• “The Night Game,” by Robert Pinsky

  

  I like the bald honesty of this piece.  As much as many folks don’t like to think about it, race and ethnicity have played a role in the history of baseball. Read more

  The 21 January 2016 by   Precious Sanders
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• “A Swing and A Miss,” by J. Patrick Lewis

  

  This piece by J. Patrick Lewis was published in Light Quarterly in 1954.  It presents some lively descriptions of the various pitches a batter faces at the... Read more

  The 02 January 2016 by   Precious Sanders
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• Mike and Junior To Cooperstown

  

  It was no big surprise that both Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame yesterday.Of the 440 votes cast, Griffey got all but... Read more

  The 07 January 2016 by   Theomnipotentq
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