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A young pitcher, facing Hornsby, complained about a pitch being called a ball. “Son,” umpire Bill Klem said, “when you pitch a strike, Mr. Hornsby will let you know it.”
Joe Posnanski • The Baseball 100
In 1930, he led the league in wins and saves (though it would be decades before the save became an official statistic).
Joe Posnanski • The Baseball 100
We learn two things: Baseball is really hard, and Ben and I might be smart.
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller • The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
And they owe it to what Baseball Twitter would call a TOOTBLAN, “Thrown Out on the Bases Like a Nincompoop.”
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller • The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
“Do you throw that fast consistently?” the team’s manager asked. “No, sir,” Paige said. “I do it all the time.”
Joe Posnanski • The Baseball 100
In 2015, Bill James said, “My view on the world is we have an ocean of ignorance and a small island of knowledge.” He wasn’t speaking specifically about baseball, but the observation applies, even to one of the most obsessively chronicled and comprehensively quantified human hobbies.
Travis Sawchik • The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
Gwynn hit .309 or better every full season of his career. He hit .351 in his first full season,