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Monday, December 06, 2010

Baseball perfect at age 10

By Tangotiger, 10:58 AM

To the growing blog recaps of this event, this one is currently my favorite, with Poz uttering my favorite line:

“Baseball is absolutely never better in any era than it is when you are 10 years old. And when you are 10, baseball is perfect. So, I was 10 in 1977, so baseball was perfect. And everything that has happened since then has made baseball less perfect than what it was in 1977. And I don’t think that’s going to change....I used to go to games in Cleveland Municipal Stadium and I loved Cleveland Municipal Stadium, it was the best stadium ever....I don’t care that I always had my view blocked by a pole…and I don’t care that my feet stuck to the ground to some substance I don’t want to think about, and I don’t care that there were 12 people in the stands and it was like 47 below zero. I don’t care, because it was great because I was 10 years old.”

(13) Comments • 2010/12/07 • SabermetricsHistory
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