There's a 2025 update to a rule that you may never have noticed existed. Previously, a batter running to first base was required to run on the right side of the foul line for the last half of the run (the last 45 feet.) That was okay for left-handed batters, since they were already positioned...
Author: danielformosa
We’re loving Tom Hoffarth’s Review
On his blog site Farther Off The Wall, Tom Hoffarth has been reviewing baseball books on a daily basis. Here’s a great review of Baseball Field Guide, Day 12 of 2023 baseball books: A field guide of dreams. “In what is presented in the cleanest of typeface, clearest of sans-serif fonts, crispest drawings and illustrations,...
Isn’t that George Staller?
Uh-oh… in an earlier edition our caption on page 176 under this photo of Earl Weaver and Boog Powell arguing with umpire Emmett Ashford needs an update. That’s not Earl Weaver on the left, it’s George Staller! In searching through historic photos we found this great picture that was taken during the 1970 World Series....