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May 23, 2008

Way Back Base Ball

I'm going to be doing an occasional feature about old-timey baseball for Walkoff Walk, one of my favorite baseball blogs. And here's the first one, about a player in the 1800s who trained with a steel baseball only to have the batters wait him out -- there were no balls and strikes back then -- and throw 300 pitches through the first three innings of a baseball game. He died at the age of 21 of natural causes, but I decided to re-write history and say his arm fell off.

Posted by D-Mac on May 23, 2008 01:26 PM
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