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That was a magical year, 1954, the year Joltin' Joe married Marilyn, and Elvis released his first single, and Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes. The TV dinner was invented, and so was a new magazine called Sports Illustrated. A young swashbuckler named Arnold Palmer won the...
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THIS is the reason I joined up as a subscriber. What a wonderful magical baseball story! Thanks, Joe!
This is what makes the Shadowball 100 so great! I talked about Joe Bauman in my annual summer baseball class back in 2016, and my favorite nugget was a quote from an umpire after he lost sight of one homer: “I can’t call it a home run because I didn’t see it leave the park, but I saw you swing so it’s a strike.”
That’s a gem. Thanks for sharing.
Your writing is great but Patreon is so inconvenient. Terrible!
“On Aug. 26, groundskeepers started a bonfire to dry the field so that baseball could resume. ”
Well sure, that makes se…wait, what?
You know, RBIs are just a product of the batters ahead of a player getting on base, and runs are just a product of the batters behind a player being able to get hits.
Ok. Except of course the 72 runs and RBIs he created himself.
For a few parts there, I felt the heat, swatted a few gnats, and heard the hard crack of a bat. Well told.