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r or die lost in 2020 were kaline seaver gibson brock ford morgan horace clarke gained in all probability thus saving jobs was the dh by the n l which hereby would join the rest of the uncivilized baseball world it seems increasingly likely the full change would occur round a new collective bargaining agreement cba in 2022 23 loss and gain are brothers twain watch out for neutral site world series which aren t plagued by the late october or even november or beyond vagaries of unseasonable heat unreasonable cold rain wind and sleet snow year round international baseball long predicted on the model of the icc has to be in the metaphorical offing it started in season as so called subway series more and more regional rivalries will further supersede traditional intraleague play there s overlap of course rivalries costs will be cut that way questionable is whether from here every announcer will travel with his or her team anymore or regularly gather onsite during cdc projected waves of the coronavirus more costs cut and zoom it s back to the future about a century ago during other times of a great plague in 1918 enigmatic hal chase was accused of cheating certainly gambling on baseball and his name seeped into before he was acquitted of such involvement the chicago black sox scandal a year later as we saw among several recently the above referenced houston astros as well as the boston red sox if history doesn t repeat its stories and lessons rhyme this witticism ofttimes is attributed to mark twain even if he never said it positively he never saw the clever observation published under or over his name it took babe ruth and the live ball era revolution of the home run just as perhaps proponents of analytics or anti analytics are functionally accomplishing today to rejuvenate the game irony is its own reward the walking shadow that measures what we lost on to le sacre du printemps in 2021 or 2022 or even 2023 and then well beyond that when it s wait til this year all over again it was the 2020 stupid posted in baseball cricket ipl right off the bat website stadiums tagged al kaline amed rosario analytics aroldis chapman atlanta braves babe ruth batting average bob gibson boston red sox buffalo bisons chicago black sox scandal cricket designated hitter doubleheader exit velocity florida marlins globe life field hal chase home run horace clarke hot stove league houston astros icc joe morgan justin turner launch angle literature live ball era lively ball los angeles dodgers lou brock major league baseball major league baseball players association mark twain mendoza line miami marlins minor leagues national league new york mets philadelphia phillies ronald reagan sabermetrics sahlen field spring training steve cohen strikeout k subway series summer olympics theo epstein tom seaver tony clark toronto blue jays whitey ford world series leave a comment joe dimaggio s second longest hitting streak at 70 years posted on july 17 2020 by rightoffthebatbook joe dimaggio barnstorms and instructs in japan following the 1950 world series as i evander write this on july 16 2020 it is 79 years since joe dimaggio s hitting streak reached its 56th and final game in the twilight of his proud career the clipper would enjoy his second longest consecutive game batting streak 19 games between september 7 1950 and september 26 1950 dimaggio collected 29 hits in 75 at bats that s a 387 accomplishment he had 8 home runs and drove in rbi 25 during this streak on september 11 he even hoisted three home runs into the distant left field bleachers of griffith stadium in his career dimaggio had hit three home runs in only two other games on june 13 1937 and on may 23 1948 this the first game of a doubleheader in cleveland two of the homers came off bob feller overall that 1950 season his last great one giuseppe led the american league with a 585 slugging percentage he walked 80 times that year an unusually high number for his career he had 32 home runs 122 rbi and a 301 batting average meanwhile an 18 year old slugger in class c ball joplin missouri presumably still learning to ply his trade at shortstop had 199 hits for a 383 batting average 26 homers and a 638 slugging percentage by 1951 and in right field not shortstop mickey mantle would join the american hero jd the greatest since lindbergh and ruth on the new york yankees as fate would have it during the world series that year in running for a fly ball off the bat of another new york rookie and great to be willie mays who uncharacteristically swung late mantle as dimaggio called him off the play caught his foot on the lip of a rubbery drain and popped a knee the injury itself was the true beginning of mantle s star crossed career my bad the great dimaggio had a 23 game hitting streak in 1940 thus we have an anniversary of 80 years as this blog was posted along with the 70 of its title now that i ve extended this essay i ll do so a little more the also great red smith equally at home at a cuppy racetrack or the baseball sward finished it all thus there were of course many others memorable and favorites not necessarily great indeed there was a longish period when my rapport with some who were less than great made me nervous maybe i was stuck on bad ballplayers i told myself not to worry some day there would be another joe dimaggio posted in baseball stadiums yankees tagged 56 game hitting streak american league babe ruth batting average bob feller cleveland indians griffith stadium joe dimaggio mickey mantle new york yankees slugging percentage leave a comment babe ruth had the spanish flu twice in 1918 posted on june 11 2020 by rightoffthebatbook the magazine everyone in the us once read identifies hemingway and ruth as two of the most important americans of the preceding century my evander s old friend and longtime supporter of the right off the bat project mike katzmarek reported a story he d heard on a french radio broadcast that started me on the slightly scattered subjects of this blog thanks also go to the late professor peter l hays for his singular knowledge of all things hemingway any errors of fact or logic or proportion or lapses in taste in the following conspectus are emphatically solely my own nineteen eighteen is one of those big news years getting into the action early ernest hemingway as yet too unworldly for fame sailed from new york to europe on may 11 by july he was injured by mortar fire in italy a bogus letter see the link four paragraphs below from f scott fitzgerald claims hemingway was too macho to quarantine during the early stages of the spanish originating in kansas and likely spread to europe by us troops flu not even to wash his hands they say on may 19 and a world away babe ruth who would hit 11 home runs that year a staggering total more than entire teams ed barrow of all people was among the many who felt the home run was something of a fad to fade away though tillie walker matched the great one s power number came down with a high fever ruth would be reported near death the behemoth of blast was transitioning to a legend so was papa hemingway the pair in age separated by four years would soon come to define the jazz age the roaring twenties in a smidgen of that era hemingway would have to quarantine at the fitzgeralds it was at cap d antibes in 1926 part of a deft à trois arrangement the babe would ve admired while papa gravitated toward rich let me tell you about the very rich they are different from you and me women ruth is never known to have quarantined and he d have plenty of his own gold sans digging by the 1920s ruth s heroics would be reported in boston particularly as akin to an avenging uncle sam on the battlefields of france the red sox luckily had sent few players to that bleak theater the 1918 world series which would haunt red sox nation the agony of cubs fans would be a footnote to it for nearly a century was over by early september as the mlb season ended on the eleventh after a 140 game schedule due to the pandemic the government had ordered citizens to find meaningful work ruth signed on with charles schwab s steel factory in lebanon pennsylvania largely to play ball by early october however and always on the move another trait shared with papa the babe was back in his native baltimore two or three years or so before tripping the light fantastic in new york he was likely recovering from a second round knockout by the pandemic antibodies antigens herd immunity curse of the bambino with vim and verve he walloped the curve from texas to duluth which is no small task and i rise to ask was there ever a guy like ruth or papa john kieran though papa hemingway had several brushes with death before self ending a crowded life only babe ruth could succumb to a pandemic twice and win a world series in the same year coda the 1918 e g hal chase s suspension and 1919 seasons were front and back loaded with scandal not unlike what mlb had in store for the public a hundred years later in 2017 and 2019 it was 1918 and all that the quote is from f scott fitzgerald s the rich boy not said by hemingway or ruth just likely thought by them too along with many of us posted in baseball right off the bat book right off the bat website tagged babe ruth boston red sox chicago black sox scandal chicago cubs christy mathewson cincinnati reds curse of the bambino curse of the billy goat edward grant barrow ernest hemingway f scott fitzgerald hal chase home run literature major league baseball pandemic spanish flu steve bartman tillie walker world series leave a comment great stadiums 13 when no one shows up posted on may 31 2020 by rightoffthebatbook a remnant of baseball games june 1 2020 with nary a game played there is no lockout there is no players union work stoppage there has been no declaration of war there is no paralyzing scandal what do we do with an empty stadium as the song says we could put up a parking lot if not for the social distancing suggested we could turn it into an urban mall as the artist s conception shows impersonate a stadium a season posted in baseball right off the bat website stadiums tagged astrodome globe life field major league baseball players association summer olympics leave a comment great stadiums 12 from blueprints posted on march 27 2020 by rightoffthebatbook and use your imagination credit new york times credit rod kennedy jr for a keen perseverance pursuant to the story linked to his name kennedy unearthed the right word the blueprints for ebbets field this is where kennedy lives in his memories as all us fans of baseball and cricket do whatever the era or place in the world flatbush or tibet of a wild in terms of where the ball was going after it left his hand young sandy koufax and the then more established boys of summer from the 1950s kennedy s dream is a one quarter scale re creation of ebbets field for a dodgers museum kennedy went scavenging in a place he more expected to find bela lugosi morphing into a bat not a 42 oz model for the original stadium plans unfortunately the brooklyn municipal fathers have reclaimed the blueprints but much had been learned the drawings revealed unknown aspects of the ballpark s design photos are usually taken from some distance away and when you stand back from the entrance you see little tiny round things on the roof of the ballpark an observer said the blueprints showed that these rooftop decorations known as antefixes were in fact baseballs ornaments that echoed the baseball adorned terracotta spandrels above the pilasters the lot plan also showed that mckeever place on the third base side was named cedar place in 1912 charles hercules ebbets would be happy his great club wouldn t win a championship till 30 years after his death whether instruments belonging to the dodgers symph phony band have been or will be discovered since the wrecking base ball of early 1960 remains unknown she s the lyrics of hart when he wrote 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