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It was not so long ago—2005, to be exact—when, for an Ivy League pitching staff, a trip to O’Donnell Field was synonymous with inflated ERAs and a tired bullpen.The Harvard baseball team averaged nearly seven runs per game that seasonâ?...
Most of the SHoP team, the class of '94 part, started architecture school at a time when the profession was operating in the residue of the recession of the early '90s. With construction in a slump, not many architects were building much in the real world. But even when you...
The reason the ERA is becoming a little more irrelevant every year is that pitchers don't pitch whole innings anymore. Relief pitchers anyway. If you go back to 1915, 1920, really, all pitchers pitched full innings 99% of the time. And you could measure a pitcher's effectiveness by...
And that's where the simple comparison to the U.S. after 1945 breaks down. Journalist turned businessman Jim McGregor, one of the most astute observers of modern China, says that the country is cramming three different eras of U.S. history into one. In U.S. terms, the postwar prosperity that fueled...
Have you ever thought about how you might have played him in your prime? Not really. Because of the equipment differences [between our eras]... there's not much point. He doesn't have a weakness, so it becomes more of a mental game. You'd have to tell yourself, "Well...