Posted on 05/12/2020 3:52:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Centipede was happy quite,
Until a Toad in fun
Said, “Pray, which leg goes after which?”
And worked her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in a ditch
Considering how to run.
This was excellent, Salena > thank you !
I was on a baseball forum once and there was a heated debate about whether that is the best possible pitching performance or a perfect game on 27 pitches (which would be the minimum possible). No consensus was reached. The most dominant outcome would be a perfect game of 27 strikeouts on 81 pitches.
AWESOME!!!!
81 pitches? That would be impossible unless the the pitcher had a 180 mph fastball and the catcher was a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Terminator.
You could have 27 first pitch foul ball outs...
This is a story that needs to be told more often, but I think that in todays schools it is never told.
I’m really glad I read this. It was a nice break from all the frustration.
What a remarkable feat. Will it ever be done again in our lifetimes? Probably not.
Maybe Greg Maddox against a Little League team. It would have to be someone with immaculate control because in all likelihood he'd have to throw 81 straight strikes. That's hard to do. Plus, he has to have enough velocity and/or movement to keep the hitters from making contact into fair ground (a foul ball would be okay as long as it wasn't done with two strikes).
If a 9-pitch, 3-strikeout inning is an immaculate inning, what would baseball people call 9 of them back-to-back-to-back for a full perfect game? Given that an immaculate inning has only been done about 100 times in the history of major league baseball, the odds of any player doing it 9 straight times is infinitesimally small. Probably like 0.[several hundred zeros] something.
Either he was a very good pitcher or all the batters sucked balls.
With a great deal of practice, I progressed from being awful to merely mediocre.
I did learn control, but never really learned how to throw hard. Nowadays, they teach kids how to throw hard first and learn control later.
LOL .. great anecdote !
I had a blazing fastball and a wicked slider, but my control had its nomadic moments ;-)
It was not a coincidence. Adults begin to organize baseball and organized all the fun out of it. When we played, you'd get more at bats in one day than organized kids got in an entire season.
The movie Sandlot was good because it was accurate. We weren't really much better than the organized kids, we just got in a lot more practice and game time. I'm sure the adults would give them some tips, and it might have helped even out the edge we had from more playing time.
If you wanted uniforms, you talked your mom into letting you take a magic marker to a light color t-shirt, usually white. For hats, you'd buy a plain color, and contrasting color of iron-on patch which you'd cut to the shape of your letter or logo. That was about as fancy as we got.
Not necessarily all foul balls. Pop flies or line drives would be OK, too, as long as every one was caught and the hitter was retired.
Oh man, before I got into league ball we’d play pickup games in the neighborhood for hours and hours and hours.
Even with it’s own set of problems, it was a different world back then and I miss it very much . . .
Often, we'd play with just six kids per team. Typically, there were two infielders; two outfielders and a hybrid which played between centerfield and second base.
To be fair, Greg Maddux once pitched a 76-pitch complete game, so if anyone could do it, he was the guy.
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