Gradually baseball is adding instant replay to its game. Today, instant replay can be used to determine whether the call on a home run is correct. Baseball is now talking about adding instant replay to calls made on balls hit down the foul-lines, deciding whether a ball is trapped or caught on a fly, and …
Having discussed in my prior blog whether a player’s individual record should have an asterisk or even not count if that player took part in steroid use, I now turn my attention to a much bigger debate. Whereas an individual record is just one achievement, voting a player into the Hall of Fame represents a …
Since 1900, the game of baseball had undergone many changes. In 1909, Ty Cobb led the American League by hitting nine home runs. In 2001, Barry Bonds set the record by hitting 73 home runs. Before 1920, pitchers were allowed to doctor the baseball. After 1920, many new and legal pitches have been developed to …