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Let’s Take a Pole
Another baseball semantics issue to settle. The batter hits a long flyball that hits the pole delineating fair and foul territory. Since the pole is considered to be in fair territory, the batter is declared to have hit a homerun. Yet, most people call this … Read more
Let’s Have a (or Play) Catch of the Day
A Catch With Dad You want to throw a ball around with a friend. How do you phrase the question? Is it like Kevin Costner’s character in “Field of Dreams,” or is something else? “Have a catch” has about 1.7 million hits on Google. “Play catch” has roughly 4.5 million hits. What say you? … Read more