All-Star Salute....
Time for the All-Star game once again....A chance for the club to catch its collective breath and for Grady and Cliff to be properly recognized by the baseball community - congrats to them! We know that baseball brings together the best of the best....but there may be some examples of that reflect the history of the game or even the worst selections...
For example, do you know who the 10 worst selections to the All-Star game may be? I had to check it out on this web page... For example, how does a player with just 208 career at-bats and zero career home runs make an All-Star team? Take the case of Frankie Zak, who played for the Pirates in 1944....and become the number one worst selection?
He was in the right place at the right time, and the fact that his career took place during the watered-down talent pool during World War II didn't hurt, either. The All-Star Game was in Pittsburgh in 1944, and Zak was a late replacement. Evidently it wasn't a long search. Zak hit .300 that year in a part-time role. He played in just 36 more games after 1944, with a total of eight hits. He didn't play in the All-Star Game, but goes down as an All-Star .... The worst All-Star ever!
(www.Baseball.about.com)
And what about the first All-Star Game? It was held in 1933 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. That inaugural contest drew more than 49,000 fans and featured Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Gabbie Hartnett and Pie Traynor. The AL won the game, 4-2, and fans were treated to home runs by Ruth and Frankie Frisch. Rick Ferrell started at catcher for the American League and played all nine innings, keeping Mickey Cochrane and Bill Dickey on the bench. (www.historicbaseball.com) For more info, check out this part of the site.....
And so we finish our first half of the season - things on the technical side have gone very well thanx to the hard work of everyone involved. There will be more in the second half here about cameras, trucks, transmission, graphics.... all the fun stuff that goes into a telecast - with pictures as well!
Enjoy the break!
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What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
For example, do you know who the 10 worst selections to the All-Star game may be? I had to check it out on this web page... For example, how does a player with just 208 career at-bats and zero career home runs make an All-Star team? Take the case of Frankie Zak, who played for the Pirates in 1944....and become the number one worst selection?
He was in the right place at the right time, and the fact that his career took place during the watered-down talent pool during World War II didn't hurt, either. The All-Star Game was in Pittsburgh in 1944, and Zak was a late replacement. Evidently it wasn't a long search. Zak hit .300 that year in a part-time role. He played in just 36 more games after 1944, with a total of eight hits. He didn't play in the All-Star Game, but goes down as an All-Star .... The worst All-Star ever!
(www.Baseball.about.com)
And what about the first All-Star Game? It was held in 1933 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. That inaugural contest drew more than 49,000 fans and featured Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Gabbie Hartnett and Pie Traynor. The AL won the game, 4-2, and fans were treated to home runs by Ruth and Frankie Frisch. Rick Ferrell started at catcher for the American League and played all nine innings, keeping Mickey Cochrane and Bill Dickey on the bench. (www.historicbaseball.com) For more info, check out this part of the site.....
And so we finish our first half of the season - things on the technical side have gone very well thanx to the hard work of everyone involved. There will be more in the second half here about cameras, trucks, transmission, graphics.... all the fun stuff that goes into a telecast - with pictures as well!
Enjoy the break!
**********************************************************************************
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
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