Category: Baseball Season
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How Not to Start a Season
Only in the world of Major League Baseball, can you start a season, take a break and then start it again almost ten days later. Here is the timeline of the start of this year’s season: It is funny how MLB markets March 28th, since they call it Opening Day, even though the first regular…
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The Balanced Schedule
Part of the homogenization of baseball has been to essentially eliminate any difference between the American and National Leagues. The introduction now of the universal DH and a balanced schedule, whereby every team now plays every other team during the year erases almost any dissimilarity between either league. The table below (introduction of the new…
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Playoffs for Everyone
President John F. Kennedy at Washington DC, Griffith Stadium to throw out first pitch 4/10/1961. Chicago White Sox vs Washington Senators.
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Too Much of a Good Thing
While some of us cannot get enough of a good thing, the vast majority realize that even the best of something is eventually too much. Baseball is no exception. Let us go back around 60 years to understand why the game has ended up in its current state. As noted in our previous post (The…