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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Who’s Waldo?

By , 10:25 PM

How often do you see someone try and bowl over the catcher these days, a la Pete Rose and Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star Game?

How often do you see that when the runner would have been safe by a mile if he had just slid in like 99.9% of players do these days?

Try and guess who made that ignoble and boneheaded play.  If you saw or heard of the play, obviously you can’t guess…

(34) Comments • 2010/09/02 • SabermetricsBaserunning
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