Tag: Baseball History
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Is ABS the first step toward robot umpires in MLB?
The automatic ball-strike (ABS) challenge system coming to baseball is ushering in a new era of baseball strategy. In a sport that has seen much change in recent years, this installment merely adds to the heated debate surrounding human umpires, but it shouldn’t be as dire as many think. To many, ABS is the first…
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What a 1959 Baseball Game Can Teach Us About Team Performance: Harvey Haddix’s “Perfect” Game
“It was just another loss, and that is no good.” – Harvey Haddix, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher, after his 1959 near-perfect game.
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October of ’04: How Newly Announced Hall of Famer Carlos Beltrán Burst onto the National Stage
An October of a lifetime came via the bat of a 27-year-old Puerto Rican center fielder. A record-tying 8 postseason home runs and a record-tying 5 consecutive postseason games with a home run put the cherry on top of a 12-game stretch that can only be described as legendary. This is the story of now-Hall…
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