PianoMonkey
02-27-2004, 11:28 AM
Hi all.
Just your average home-sick college kid here, who can't wait for the season to start.
I fell in love with baseball largely because of three things: George Brett, Bo Jackson, and the MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia.
My dad still has his old BE from I think '69-70, and I grew up intrigued by all the quirks in the stats: Pitchers from the early years with fewer decisions than complete games, the 8 (I think, they've since changed the format) players in that old BE with the infinity symbol for ERA's, the overabundance of position players with exactly 1 IP, etc. And you can't beat some of the names in there.
Of course, nothing can make you feel love for the game like watching Bo asbolutely crush a 450-foot BROKEN BAT homer. In September. And watching him break his bat OVER HIS HEAD. Most people think that bat probably was already cracked, but some of us aren't so sure... He broke enough of them over his knee that there's no doubt he was strong enough to break a fresh one on his skull.
Seeing Brett kick Graig Nettles' hated Yankee butt for no readily apparent reason helps, too.
Just your average home-sick college kid here, who can't wait for the season to start.
I fell in love with baseball largely because of three things: George Brett, Bo Jackson, and the MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia.
My dad still has his old BE from I think '69-70, and I grew up intrigued by all the quirks in the stats: Pitchers from the early years with fewer decisions than complete games, the 8 (I think, they've since changed the format) players in that old BE with the infinity symbol for ERA's, the overabundance of position players with exactly 1 IP, etc. And you can't beat some of the names in there.
Of course, nothing can make you feel love for the game like watching Bo asbolutely crush a 450-foot BROKEN BAT homer. In September. And watching him break his bat OVER HIS HEAD. Most people think that bat probably was already cracked, but some of us aren't so sure... He broke enough of them over his knee that there's no doubt he was strong enough to break a fresh one on his skull.
Seeing Brett kick Graig Nettles' hated Yankee butt for no readily apparent reason helps, too.