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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Stopwatches

By Tangotiger, 08:18 AM

Rob at Batter’s Box used some high technology to figure out how fast a batter runs to first base.  (Hat tip studes.) I love this stuff, because it’s so basic, and so easy to record.  One of my favorite shows in the 80s was the skills competition (the NHL did a great job with those as well).  From what I remember, they did bunting and getting to first base, stealing second base, scoring from second base, throwing from the OF to a cutoff guy, and a few hitting skills.  I remember Tim Raines winning one of these competitions (in the Year of the Bo).  I’d love to see more “getting back to basics” data recording.  I’ll repeat here my call to get more scorers and stopwatches to record games.

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