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A Japanese high school baseball game lasts 50 innings over four days – Washington Post (blog)
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Why baseball is America’s most dangerous spectator sport – The Week Magazine
FRED FLETCHER DOESN’T watch baseball anymore, but one night in May, he got a text from a friend: Something had happened at that evening’s Atlanta Braves game. An 8-year-old boy had been hit in the head by a line drive foul off the bat of Milwaukee Brewer Carlos Gomez during the seventh inning. In bed, with the volume on low so he wouldn’t wake his wife, Fletcher…
Can Baseball Get More Interesting to Watch With Big Data? – Newsweek
Chukyo Defeats Sotoku in 50-Inning National High School Rubber Baseball Game – Bleacher Report
For all the talk about speeding up MLB games, a 50-inning high school rubber baseball game in Japan might be the perfect catalyst to starting up productive talks in the United States. Chukyo and Sotoku, two teams competing in the semifinals of the 59th National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament, traded zeros for 49 innings before Chukyo scraped three runs across the board in the 50th inning. As MLB’s…
Happy 98th birthday to the fastest baseball game ever played – CBSSports.com
At one end of the pacing continuum we have the current malaise of slowness (real, exaggerated or imagined), and on the other end we have what unfurled on Aug. 30, 1916 in the North Carolina State League. What unfurled was a 31-minute nine-inning game between the Winston-Salem Twins and the Asheville Tourists. It was one of the last games of the 1916 Class D regular season, and the Twins had…
Ohio’s native son designed baseball’s integration – Mansfield News Journal
Branch Rickey, owner and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals is shown here on July 26, 1922. (Photo: AP Photo ) Branch Rickey was a young baseball coach at Ohio Wesleyan in 1903 when he took his team to South Bend, Indiana, to play Notre Dame. The hotel refused an accommodation for the Bishops’ star catcher, Charles Thomas, because he was black. Rickey finally convinced the desk clerk to allow…
Baseball Capsules – USA TODAY
CHICAGO (AP) — Chris Sale struck out a season-high 13 in seven innings, beating Max Scherzer in a matchup of All-Star aces and leading the Chicago White Sox past the Detroit Tigers 6-3 in the first game of a day-night doubleheader Saturday. Adam Dunn hit a two-run homer and Tyler Flowers also went deep against Scherzer (15-5), who fanned 11 and walked none in 6 2-3 innings. But he was…
Area Baseball Beat: Despite stature, Elk Grove High’s Nick Madrigal looks like … – Sacramento Bee
Elk Grove High School senior Nick Madrigal can play in the majors now, according to former big-league shortstop David Eckstein. Thats a bold statement about someone who is 17 years old and just 5-foot-7 and 145 pounds. Eckstein understands what it takes to make misconception about size in baseball disappear. Eckstein, just 5-6, was the 2006 World Series MVP with the St. Louis Cardinals. I think he can play shortstop…
Hamill: Summer baseball and the parade of time – New York Daily News
Howard Simmons Little League baseball teaches a father and son big life lessons. The front door opened, Ryan looked up, and like a jump cut in a movie his son entered and was ready to turn 15. Whenever summer ended, his youngest son, Rory, turned over another year of life in the unstoppable first week of September. Ryan looked Rory up and down…
An Appreciation of Adrian Beltre, the Baseball and Comedy Superstar NESN … – Boston.com
If you want a reason why Tom Werner was nothing more than a cardboard-cutout candidate for commissioner, forget the more famous and infamous flaws on his baseball resume: gutting the ’93 Padres, Roseanne’s itchy anthem, NESN’s Comedy All-Stars, all of that. Just remember this: The 2010 Red Sox had Adrian Beltre in their midst. And let him go in part because Werner thought the team needed to be more entertaining….
Baseball is dying, you guys, because no one would recognize Mike Trout in a bar – NBCSports.com
Ben McGrath of The New Yorker has the latest Baseball is Dying story. And, actually, it’s a good story, as you might expect from a good writer at a good publication. In it he makes a good distinction — one I should do better about making when I cover my currently favorite beat — about how the metrics of baseball and the cultural zeitgeist of baseball are two different things….
Watch a Japanese baseball player try to hit a 186 mph fastball (Video) – Yahoo Sports (blog)
It’s tough to figure out exactly what’s going on in the video above because it’s in Japanese, but we know the important stuff: That’s former Nippon Pro Baseball home-run king Takashi Yamasaki guesting on some sort of funny Japanese TV show. His goal is to try to hit a 186 mph fastball from a pitching machine. Yikes. You know how fast that is? It’s so fast Yamasaki couldn’t even swing before the ball passed…
Theo: JRW ‘rallying cry’ for inner city baseball – ESPN (blog)
As the city of Chicago celebrated its Little League U.S. champions, Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein said Wednesday that Jackie Robinson West’s success should be a “rallying cry” to bring more inner city kids back to baseball. Podcast: ‘Carmen & Jurko Show’ Cubs president Theo Epstein joins “Carmen & Jurko” to discuss the Jackie Robinson West team, the progress of Javier Baez and the arrival of Jorge Soler. Listen “At…
Theo: JRW ‘rallying cry’ for inner city baseball – ESPN (blog)
As the city of Chicago celebrated its Little League U.S. champions, Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein said Wednesday that Jackie Robinson West’s success should be a “rallying cry” to bring more inner city kids back to baseball. Podcast: ‘Carmen & Jurko Show’ Cubs president Theo Epstein joins “Carmen & Jurko” to discuss the Jackie Robinson West team, the progress of Javier Baez and the arrival of Jorge Soler. Listen “At…
Theo: JRW ‘rallying cry’ for inner city baseball – ESPN (blog)
As the city of Chicago celebrated its Little League U.S. champions, Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein said Wednesday that Jackie Robinson West’s success should be a “rallying cry” to bring more inner city kids back to baseball. Podcast: ‘Carmen & Jurko Show’ Cubs president Theo Epstein joins “Carmen & Jurko” to discuss the Jackie Robinson West team, the progress of Javier Baez and the arrival of Jorge Soler. Listen “At…
MLB players launch mobile baseball game featuring astronauts and pirates – USA TODAY
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller and Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Wil Myers have launched an iOS baseball game called Wil and Shelby’s Baseball Battle. The gameplay appears reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit console baseball games, but it’s 2014 now so it allows you to log in via Facebook and challenge your friends. Most importantly, the game includes customizable equipment, stadiums, and characters, so you can play as an…
The Twilight of Baseball – The New Yorker
Credit Photograph by Ted S. Warren / AP If Mike Trout walked into your neighborhood bar, would you recognize him? Let me rephrase: If the baseball player who is widely considered the best in the world—a once-in-a-generation talent, the greatest outfielder since Barry Bonds, the most accomplished twenty-two-year-old that the activity formerly known as the national pastime has ever known—bent elbows over a stool and ordered an I.P.A., would anyone…
Girl’s skull fractured by stray BlueClaws baseball – www.app.com
Alexis Pavlinec of Jackson is shown in this undated photograph. A stray ball hit the girl in the face on Sunday at FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood, her parents said. (Photo: Photo courtesy of Ken Pavlinec. ) LAKEWOOD – Ken Pavlinec of Jackson remembers the sound a stray baseball made as it slammed into his 10-year-old daughter’s face on Sunday, fracturing her skull and leaving an imprint of the ball’s stitches….
Counting down Binghamton’s top baseball players: 10-6 – Press & Sun-Bulletin
- – Binghamton Mets’ third baseman David Wright throws a runner out during a game Thursday with the Norwich Navigators.(Photo: Wayne Hansen, Copyright 2004) Story Highlights Ken Harrelson has the record for most home runs (38) in a season by a Binghamton player John Montgomery Ward threw every pitch for the Crickets in 1878 Jay Payton was the first B-Mets player to win the Eastern League MVP Some were future…
Theo: JRW ‘rallying cry’ for inner city baseball – ESPN (blog)
As the city of Chicago celebrated its Little League U.S. champions, Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein said Wednesday that Jackie Robinson West’s success should be a “rallying cry” to bring more inner city kids back to baseball. Podcast: ‘Carmen & Jurko Show’ Cubs president Theo Epstein joins “Carmen & Jurko” to discuss the Jackie Robinson West team, the progress of Javier Baez and the arrival of Jorge Soler. Listen “At…
