Wally Pipp is baseball version of Rodney Dangerfield (if you don’t him, he is a famous actor who coined the term ‘I get no respect around here’). He was actually a decent first baseman player, who unfortunately got replaced by Lou Gehrig (you know, the GREATEST first baseman in baseball history) and was traded to …
Introduction An on-deck batter traditionally wait inside a 3-ft diameter circle (called “on-deck circle”) that is usually located approximately 35 feet away from the home plate. During a professional game, there is normally a batboy or batgirl who retrieves used bats thrown by batters and hand off extra baseballs to umpires. At a youth baseball …
Back to the bushes – being sent down to lower league (i.e. majors to minors AAA) Slash line – a quick view of batter’s statistics (i.e. batting averge/slugging/onbase percentage Aboard – a runner reaching a base Ace – the best starting pitcher on a team ASA – Amateur Softball Association, which currently serves as the …
