A stadium from 1880 that had once been shared with the NY Yankees, and hosted MLB games in 1963.
I was born in NYC, and attended games at the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, and Yankee Stadium, two Yankee Stadiums ago. It seemed to me that baseball stadiums lasted forever, hosting a game designed by God himself, with magic dimensions. The game would not work if baselines were 90'2".
Then I attended the first night game and All Star game at Shea Stadium in 1964. That stadium is no more. There used to be 16 teams; now there are 30. The "national passtime" was played, at the major league level north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. Baseball was a contest of neighborhoods, with 2 teams in Boston, 3 in NY, 2 in Philadelphia , and 2 in St. Louis.
Now, the game is ubiquitous and corporate, played by and increasingly for millionaires.
It's backwards! Great eye, Jeff, I didn't notice that in my approximately 100 viewings of the short. Fascinating. I wonder how that happens. Surely the people making it knew what home plate looked like. Maybe some piece of animation got reversed somehow by accident.
"While complete stats are not available, we know that he shut out the Gorillas for five innings, when we would expect them to score over two runs against another team. Bunny did this, however, without any defense behind him. Every play had to be made by one player, which interestingly offers us a way out of recent arguments about how much a pitcher contributes to the outcome of balls put into play."
I swear I started fooling with this idea back in 2005 when I was in graduate school! But only one of us got published in the Best American Sportswriting of 2007, and the one who did really deserved the honor.
A stadium from 1880 that had once been shared with the NY Yankees, and hosted MLB games in 1963.
I was born in NYC, and attended games at the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, and Yankee Stadium, two Yankee Stadiums ago. It seemed to me that baseball stadiums lasted forever, hosting a game designed by God himself, with magic dimensions. The game would not work if baselines were 90'2".
Then I attended the first night game and All Star game at Shea Stadium in 1964. That stadium is no more. There used to be 16 teams; now there are 30. The "national passtime" was played, at the major league level north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. Baseball was a contest of neighborhoods, with 2 teams in Boston, 3 in NY, 2 in Philadelphia , and 2 in St. Louis.
Now, the game is ubiquitous and corporate, played by and increasingly for millionaires.
Things change.
“powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermous percussion pitch.” - that's a lotta' "p's," Paul. . .
Bill, as you know well with your background, the quote is the quote. I'm just the professional who preserves for posterity what the past has provided.
Well-played. . .
Love the article… especially Bugs! Thank you Paul.
I know there are new MLB rules again but I hope they put home plate back facing the right way again. Thank you Bugs 🥕
It's backwards! Great eye, Jeff, I didn't notice that in my approximately 100 viewings of the short. Fascinating. I wonder how that happens. Surely the people making it knew what home plate looked like. Maybe some piece of animation got reversed somehow by accident.
Great stuff. Took me about halfway through to catch on.
"While complete stats are not available, we know that he shut out the Gorillas for five innings, when we would expect them to score over two runs against another team. Bunny did this, however, without any defense behind him. Every play had to be made by one player, which interestingly offers us a way out of recent arguments about how much a pitcher contributes to the outcome of balls put into play."
http://www.ussmariner.com/2006/03/12/bugs-bunny-greatest-banned-player-ever/
I swear I started fooling with this idea back in 2005 when I was in graduate school! But only one of us got published in the Best American Sportswriting of 2007, and the one who did really deserved the honor.