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...held the honor of employing the "nicest ushers in baseball." When a fan makes a clean catch, the announcer calls out "Give that fan a contract!" and the ushers actually race over with a "contract" from the team. There were never fights at Memorial, beer-induced or otherwise. Cal Ripken, Jr. still drinks milk, for God's sake! You'll also never catch an Oriole charging money for his autograph. Far from it! Orioles players are required to name a favorite charity upon signing a contract in order to cement each player's relationship with the city. Bleacher seats...
...MOST CITIES, people go to baseball games to see power, not precision. It wasn't exciting to watch shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. earn a record .996 fielding percentage with only three errors in 1990. Nope. Not exciting. But watching Ripken and the Orioles play all season can be downright poetic. Scoff, cite statistics about "better" teams until you're blue in the face. You're probably right. Baltimore's record in recent years has been dismal...
...point is not to contrast Cal Ripken Jr. and Nolan Ryan with Lou Gehrig and Johnny Vander Meer, or even to note that "these sports doctors" have enabled many players to considerably extend their careers. But comparisons between baseball then and now should depend on the opinions of a Tommy Lasorda and not a Chuck Connors. In one of the book's better interviews, Lasorda succinctly describes the most pronounced change in baseball: the power shift from the owners to the players. If the stars of the 1950s actually played "for the love of the game" and not for money...
...course, my father had to cal me "Jona" on the first day of Freshman Week--so one of my best friends at school picked up on that and has never let go. I actually love it when my buddy calls me that--it gives me a sense that I'm not too far from home. But I hated it when my former girlfriend said "Jona." She sounded like my annoying little sisters from years past, so I forbade her from using the nickname...
SchoolPWR W-L 1. Stanford 1765 14-0 2. Cornell 1703 4-1 3. UNC-Wilm 1651 14-2 4. Arizona 1570 5-3 5. Wisconsin 1555 5-0 6. UCSC 1444 10-6 7. Carleton 1443 4-1 8. Cal-Ply-SLO 1422 7-6 9. UCSB 1410 10-7 10. G. Tech 1355 6-2 11. Las Posit. 1353 6-4 12. HARVARD 1351 5-1 13. Miami 1310 4-0 14. Virginia 1249 12-2 15. Humboldt 1247 2-3 16. Georgia 1232 4-2 17. UC-Berk. 1195 2-8 18. E. Carol...