On Jan 27, 9:39=A0am, Insane Ranter wrote:
> On Jan 27, 8:07=A0am, Jack Linthicum
> wrote:
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> > On Jan 27, 12:52=A0am, The Horny Goat wrote:
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> > > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:13:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Rostrom
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> > > wrote:
> > > >Or WI a batter who scores lines up to bat
> > > >again immediately? I.e. the #5 batter
> > > >doesn't bat until #1 through #4 are either
> > > >out or on base.
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> > > Thus making the 1927 and 1961 NY Yankees even scarier!
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> > > >Or WI a baseball game had just one inning,
> > > >with each team getting 27 outs? This would
> > > >create a scoring situation similar to
> > > >cricket: the visiting team would win by
> > > >some number of runs, but the home team
> > > >would win by 1 to 4 runs, with some number
> > > >of outs remaining (equivalent to a cricket
> > > >win by some number of wickets remaining).
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> > > That would certainly make baseball betting more complicated!
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> > > >The effects of longer innings would be
> > > >* increased scores
> > > >* great reduction in bunting, base stealing
> > > >and other 1-run strategems
> > > >* pitchers would be used differently (I
> > > >don't think a pitcher could go for 27 outs,
> > > >or even 9 outs, with no breaks.)
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> > > I would think underhanded pitching would change the game even more.
> > > Probably more so than the forward pass changed (American) football.
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> > Moving the pitcher's box back helped batters.
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> > and
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> > "When the National League first started in 1876, pitchers had to pitch
> > underhand and the batter could request a high or low pitch. Strikes
> > only occurred if the batter swung and missed."
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> >http://www.squidoo.com/baseballtrivia
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> It'd be alot like softball. No 5 pitcher rotations only have maybe 3
> at the most?
At the beginning, 1887 seems a popular year, Cincinnati had a 19 team
roster, 7 pitchers. Two had 100 games between them, one 22, then 8, 2,
1, 1. One guy, Pop Corkel, is listed as a relief pitcher and had 5
appearances and a similar ERA 5.52.
wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Cincinnati_Red_Stockings_season |
