Our Baseball Heritage : The Voice-Tribune. 10 Strange Major League Baseball Feats That Have Only Been Accomplished Once. America's Pastime, Behind Bars. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Civil War prisons were terrible places: captured solders suffered and died by the thousands from malnutrition, disease and exposure to the elements. But in several Northern and Southern prisons, a few fortunate inmates were able to enjoy, for a moment, a lighter side of life: baseball. The Civil War was the caldron of America’s pastime, the period in which several prototype forms of the game – the New York game, townball – were melded into what we more or less know as the sport today.
Such melding took place in camps, where officers on both sides permitted and even encouraged baseball playing. But it also took place in prisons, mostly notably those in Salisbury, N.C., and Johnson’s Island, near Sandusky, Ohio. During the first two years of combat, weather permitting, the Salisbury camp was the site of daily baseball games by captured Northern soldiers. The most detailed report of that grand contest appeared in 1874 in Col. The Official Site of The Chicago Cubs | cubs.com: Homepage. How the Original Donruss Rated Rookies Turned Out.
In 1984, Donruss released what some collectors consider one of the greatest baseball card sets of all time. In addition to 26 Diamond Kings—a subset of cards depicting a star player from every team—the 660-card set included 20 Rated Rookies, a new subset that highlighted a crop of promising young players selected by New York Daily News writer Bill Madden.
The Rated Rookie would become a staple of the Donruss brand for years to come. A few of the original Rated Rookies lived up to the hype, while others look silly in hindsight. Many of the 20 Rated Rookies that constitute cards 27-46 of the 1984 Donruss checklist fell somewhere in between. Here are their stories. #27 Joel Skinner Skinner broke into the majors in 1983 with the Chicago White Sox and appeared in 43 games in 1984, batting .213 with 3 RBIs in 80 at-bats. . #28 Tommy Dunbar The Texas Rangers selected Dunbar out of Middle Georgia College in the first round of the 1980 draft. . #32 Tony Fernandez Here’s one that Madden got right. The Evolution of the Baseball Bat. This page uses Javascript. Your browser either doesn't support Javascript or you have it turned off.
To see this page as it is meant to appear please use a Javascript enabled browser. ...from the first crack to the 'clank' by Bernie Mussilledited by Steve Orinick Come travel with me many years back into history and let us study "The Evolution of the Baseball Bat". I am sure that each of us at one time or another has had the urge to skip a stone across a lake or to pitch, catch, throw or bat some type of ball. In Europe, Nicholas Grudich played Lupka with other boys by using a five inch round pointed stick that was set at an angle on the ground and hit with a flat bat. Townball was a game involving twenty to thirty boys in a field attempting to catch a ball hit by a tosser. BYOB (Bring Your Own BAT) Numerous changes were made in all aspects of the game of baseball during the first six years.
As we arrive in the year 1852, there are still no restrictions on bats. The Early Restrictions J . Baseball Stats Tracker--Free Individual, Team, and League Statistics Calculator and Database for Little League, Softball, School, and Recreational Teams & Tournaments. The Baseball Cube. Physics of a Baseball Pitch - Baseball Pitch Speed Record. Last Friday was a mixed bag for fans of the fastball. Early in the day, the Washington Nationals announced that phenom Stephen Strasburg, who hurled a 101-mph pitch in his debut in June, would likely require Tommy John surgery for his injured elbow; a procedure that could sideline him for up to 18 months. But later that night Aroldis Chapman, a 22-year-old Cuban defector pitching for the Cincinnati Reds' triple-A affiliate in Louisville, captured baseball fans' attention when he threw a pitch clocked at 105 mph. Chapman's pitch was one of the fastest ever recorded; one that pushed his body to the limit of human ability.
And while athletes in other sports, like Usain Bolt in the 100-meter sprint, continue to rewrite the record books, don't expect pitchers to throw any faster than Chapman. In a laboratory at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala., Dr. Fleisig isn't alone; few others have seen 105-mph heat either. Ballparks of Baseball - A Guide to Major League Baseball Stadiums. FLORENCE FREEDOM - Frontier League Independent Professional Baseball. Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Baseball Statistics and History. The Official Site of The Cincinnati Reds | reds.com: Homepage. Pensacola Blue Wahoos Homepage. Check out the Reds Top ProspectsThe Reds are once again deep in the pitching department in their Minor Leagues. One of the most highly regarded is RHP Robert Stephenson. He finished 2013 with the Blue Wahoos and now enters 2014 as the Reds top pitching prospect. MORE » Bella Blue Women's ClubAfter a successful first season in 2013, the Bella Blue Women's Club will be back in 2014!
2013 members enjoyed pregame segway tours as well as Mixology 101. Reviving Baseball in Inner CitiesRBI stands for Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities and is dedicated to increasing participation and interest in baseball and softball among underserved youth. Connect with the Blue Wahoos. Louisville Bats Homepage.