Comments on: Alex Cora

By: H.D. Miller

H.D. Miller — Sun, 16 May 2004 23:26:18 +0000

Speaking of “How to Bat 1.000” Check out this feel-okay story: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/one_hit_wonder.php “America’s taverns and softball fields echo with the voices of dreamers, men and women who would give anything for the chance to dig into brown dirt, take smooth ash in hand, and lock eyes with a big-league hurler standing his ground some 60 feet away. Forty-five years ago this Sunday, Chuck Lindstrom got that chance, and he made the most of it. He never imagined he’d get only one.[...] Now in his mid-sixties, a successful businessman and father of five, Lindstrom is at home with his place in baseball history. ‘Anybody with any intelligence would understand that hitting 1.000 is fluky,’ he says with a smile. ‘You’re not gonna hit 1.000 if you get to bat many times.’ He is fiercely proud of all that his father accomplished, though he points out that Freddie is not the only Lindstrom to be honored in Cooperstown. In fact, he wasn’t even the first. In 1954, 22 years before his father’s enshrinement, 17-year-old Chuck Lindstrom was introduced as American Legion Player of the Year during Hall of Fame Weekend.”

By: rdb

rdb — Fri, 14 May 2004 09:59:20 +0000

Baseball is like watching grass grow… I remember watching (on TV) Colin Cowdrey (English criketer) playing as nightwatchman in a Test in the ‘70s where the commentators gave up and discussed what the correct plural was for a group of seagulls.

By: Chris Marcil

Chris Marcil — Thu, 13 May 2004 21:45:21 +0000

Saw it too and it was great. Even Vin Scully was amazed. And the night before there was the Angel-Yankee game, where ace relievers Rivera, Percival, and K-Rod all blew the save. You won’t see that every day, either.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 13 May 2004 20:39:46 +0000

Fortunately for myself, the game wasn’t on broadcast TV in Chicago and I don’t have cable/sattelite, so I didn’t have to witness that loss. At the moment, I have the pleasure of watching today’s game click-by-click on MLB Gameday. Cubs 1, LA 0, bases loaded, no outs in the Cubs half of the second. Waiting for that next refresh…

By: J. Michael Neal

J. Michael Neal — Thu, 13 May 2004 18:47:50 +0000

Yeah, it’s easy for the rest of you to say it’s a great at bat. You don’t have Matt Clement on a fantasy team struggling to get out of the basement.

By: Robert Tagorda

Robert Tagorda — Thu, 13 May 2004 18:05:35 +0000

I, too, was impressed, though I have to quibble with your description of Dodger Stadium as “one of the toughest parks to homer in in baseball.” According to a three-year park factors study by Baseball Prospectus, Dodger Stadium is indeed a pitcher-friendly. But it suppresses primarily doubles and triples. For home runs, the park is actually around the league average.

By: Reid

Reid — Thu, 13 May 2004 17:58:14 +0000

Man Baseball is boring as it is, when I was watching it, I was going crazy! They should have just called the game and plowed the stadium and made it into a parking ramp, Baseball is like watching grass grow.

By: andrew edwards

andrew edwards — Thu, 13 May 2004 14:15:08 +0000

Alex f—in’ Cora? Who would have guessed. I love baseball. Bonds versus Gagne was the best at-bat of the year so far. Giants were down 3-0, with one runner on, and Gagne decided to challenge Bonds. The first pitch was a 98mph fastball up and in, and Bonds drove it into McCovey cove, foul. That is, he was ahead of it. Next pitch, Gagne comes right back at him, 99mph, up and in again, and Bonds, having apparently made the hudredth-of-a-second correction required, drove it again into the Bay, this time to left-centre. Greatest hitter ever?

By: dmm

dmm — Thu, 13 May 2004 13:30:51 +0000

He stole the premise from The Kid Who Batted 1.000.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 13 May 2004 12:01:52 +0000

Check out our “Philosophy Talk” episode on baseball here: http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/Baseball.htm

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 13 May 2004 08:39:10 +0000

Completely unconnected. I’m trying to compile a list of 17th-century scholars homepages/blogs for a projected 17th-century group blog. If anyone’s interested in being a 17th-century blogger or sending me their homepage I’d appreciate it. Cheers.

By: iwishtheroyalssuckedless

iwishtheroyalssuckedless — Thu, 13 May 2004 07:10:16 +0000

A week or two ago Ken Harvey of the Kansas City Royals pulled a ball deep down the left field line, hooking, hooking—called fair by the umpire with the best view. But then the other umpires convened and overruled, suddenly it’s a foul. Next pitch, same swing and Harvey pulls it into the visitor’s bullpen. Replays showed the first one was foul, but still quite an at-bat. Baseball=awesome