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BATTER UP!
Some guys definitely throw a "heavy" fastball. I've caught a few knuckleballers, and I wouldn't recommend it. I think the old "wait til it stops rolling then pick it up" is the best way to catch the knuckler. I remember one pitcher I caught who had a terrific overhand curve...a real 12-6er...- HudsonHawk
- Post #458
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
I have one of those inserts. It doesn't instill a lot of confidence. It's pretty thin.- HudsonHawk
- Post #455
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
We still have the baskets. There are EZ tag lanes, exact change lanes, and change made lanes. Half the time people get in the exact change lane, then go about fumbling through center console to try to find change. Then realize they don't have it. Then have to call an attendant over. There are...- HudsonHawk
- Post #5,116
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
So is driving 2 hours out of your way because you don't want to pay 50 cents for a toll.- HudsonHawk
- Post #5,115
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
The hardest throwing pitcher I ever faced was probably low 90s...93, 94...you can hear when it whizzes by your ear. The hardest throwing pitcher I ever caught was about the same. It felt like catching a bowling ball. Like it wanted to go right through you. I've caught 100 mph pitches from a...- HudsonHawk
- Post #453
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
There is a popular image of Ruth as the overweight, lumbering sloth who could barely standup. And he may have been that way at the end, and when he played himself in Pride of the Yankees. But Ruth in his day was a terrific athlete. Not only could he hit, but he could run and was an excellent...- HudsonHawk
- Post #447
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
We just call our "toll roads". And the E-Z Pass is the greatest thing invented since the toll road. Not only does it save time, it saves money. I'm not sure what driving a Lexus would have to do them though.- HudsonHawk
- Post #5,111
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I distinctly remember older relatives referring to paper currency as "folding money", as opposed to coinage. If you "give" or "bet" foldin' money, it represents a tidy sum. My dad talks about people referring to cash as "big money", but I don't personally remember hearing that term.- HudsonHawk
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
My favorite country singer Don Williams has passed away. To me, Williams' songs represented a true Southerm gentleman. Not a loud-mouthed, hell raising redneck, but a man who was intelligent and well read, whose thoughts were measured and earnest. Williams was 78- HudsonHawk
- Post #3,930
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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BATTER UP!
One tidbit about the Astrodome that many people don't realize is that originally the panels on the roof were clear plexiglass, and they grew real grass. However, the glass panels acted like a bizarre kaleidoscope, so they painted the panels solid. But then no sunlight got in, and the grass...- HudsonHawk
- Post #412
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
Out with the old, in with the new: Colt Stadium in Houston, home of the original Houston Colt .45s in the foreground, with the Astrodome, the Eighth Wonder of the World nearing completion in the behind it. When the Astrodome was completed (and the Colts moved in to become the Astros), the...- HudsonHawk
- Post #409
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
I'm hoping she keeps me around just to talk baseball. Lord knows it won't be for my handsome good looks and boyish charm.- HudsonHawk
- Post #392
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
Understood. That's just a common argument for reinstatement...that they were "banned for life" and their sentence should automatically be commuted upon their death. In reality, they were "banned forever". There has always been a reinstatement mechanism, but none of the Black Sox or Rose has...- HudsonHawk
- Post #383
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
That's exactly what I'm arguing. That the real "crime" was damage to the game's reputation, not the actual outcome of the games. He *did* act on it. What happened after he committed the crime of agreeing to fix the games is irrelevant. I get the argument that the punishment was too harsh, but...- HudsonHawk
- Post #379
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
The official indictment was for a conspiracy 1) "to operate among the spectators of said games and others and the general public to procure divers large sums of money by means of and by use of the confidence game" and 2) against a one Charles C. Nims of Chicago who was "unlawfully, fraudulently...- HudsonHawk
- Post #377
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
I think that whether or not Jackson acted on his promise to throw the games doesn't mitigate the real damage. The damage to the game is not that the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series rather than the Chicago White Sox, it's the loss of confidence from the public that the games were...- HudsonHawk
- Post #374
- Forum: The Golden Era
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BATTER UP!
I think it was entirely Landis's intention to ban the players permanently from all aspects of the game, not just from playing the game or just for the duration of their lifetime. The current Major League Rules state that "a player or other person on the Ineligible List shall not be eligible to...- HudsonHawk
- Post #373
- Forum: The Golden Era
