#abner doubleday

[kchasm]

Abner Doubleday, who invented a lot less baseball than certain folks insist, has a Ryu Number of at most 3.

This owes primarily to 1) Doubleday's service as a Union major general during the American Civil War, and 2) Mystique, an American video game developer that specialized in pornographic video games for the Atari 2600.

[gummyartstradingcards]

[kristinfrncs]

That's it! The World Serious.

That's it! The World Serious. Can I simply watch baseball for the love of the game? Apparently since I'm now watching game two. #boysofsummer #worldseries #2018worldseries #LADodgers #BostonRedSox

Photo pulled from dodgerblue.com

What do you do when it’s the 2018 World Series and you don’t care about either team? Do you go about life and not watch it? Do you pick the team with the best uniforms? Or the cutest players? Or do you simply watch the great feat that is baseball? Well of course, it’s the last option.

All my life my dad watched baseball. To be more specific…Cardinals baseball. I…

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[tanakhcast]

TanakhCast #137: The Three No, Four Yes Edition

In this week’s episode: Amos 1-3.  We begin the Book of Amos with some thoughts about the rule of three and God’s forgiveness.

And ICYMI, you can find the comic strip “Star Trek Problems” about how the Trek universe uses the rule of three here.

[pittsburghbeautiful]

Abner Doubleday, Gettysburg, Clint Hurdle, the Pirates and History

Part of Pittsburgh Beautiful (yours truly and PB founder, Chris Klein, and our better halves) spent this past weekend in Gettysburg taking in some of the more historic aspects of the United States. But it was baseball that stopped us in our tracks at the Museum at Gettysburg National Military Park.

Abner Doubleday fought in the Civil War. Part of me knew this was a fact. Doubleday, in fact, had…

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[universobeisbol]

John Thorn: “El propósito primario de la historia es entender mejor el momento presente”

John Thorn: “El propósito primario de la historia es entender mejor el momento presente”

John Thorn. (Foto: tomada de SLA Baseball Caucus) Por Reynaldo Cruz Nacido en Stuttgart, Alemania y criado en el Bronx, en la ciudad de New York, John Thorn, hijo de judíos polacos, se convirtió en el Historiador Oficial de la Major League Baseball desde el 1º de marzo de 2011, además de haber recibido en 2006 el Premio Bob Davids, de la Sociedad para la Investigación del Béisbol de Estados…

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[theartisanalgrammarian-blog]

Baseball Likes to Be Different

“They’re not points!” baseball fans admonish newbies to the game. “They’re runs! When you score in baseball, it’s called a run.”

But why? When most sports use “point” or “goal,” why does baseball insist on “run”?

Most likely because you usually have to run around the bases to score. Hey, it's a simple game, as baseball players like to say during interviews. Related games, such as cricket, also keep score by runs.

It wasn’t always thus. Cricket once called scores “notches” because scorekeepers kept track by notching sticks. For much of the 19th century, baseball used the term “ace.”

Baseball evolved from the English game of rounders — which calls its scores “rounders.” Contrary to myth, Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball. Albert Spalding, a former Chicago Cubs player and executive, promoted the Doubleday origin story early in the 20th century to help market his brand of sporting goods.

As a Union general during the Civil War, Doubleday would at least have seen soldiers playing the game during breaks in the fighting. The war did much to turn what had been a New York–centric recreation into America’s national pastime — among both Yankees and Confederates. — Photo of New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig scoring a run in 1925 against Washington Senators catcher Hank Severeid (with umpire Dick Nallin watching) from National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress

10/3/16

[awkwardspiritanimals]

abner doubleday’s nickname was ‘old forty-eight hours’ because he was known for being sluggish to act and just

i honestly want to weep at how clever that nickname is