It’s baseball season! If you go to a Milwaukee Brewers game, you’ll find a whole range of fans — from the tailgaters to the racing sausage enthusiasts. But you might also see some with a pen and paper ...
A walk is the colloquial term for a base on balls in baseball scoring. Both mean the same, both serve the same purpose. Both are non-Sabermetric statistics. A base on balls, or walk, happens when a ...
Last week I started cleaning out my basement, a project that should be completed by 2012. I came across a pennant from the inaugural Triple-A All-Star Game at Pilot Field, stacks of sports books I've ...
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Mark Schmiedeskamp fell in love with baseball as a nine-year-old in little league. But there was only one problem. “I was terrible,” Schmiedeskamp said. “And the coach always ...
Keeping a baseball scorebook isn’t exactly easy. There are so many variables and possible interpretations (hit or error?). One truly has to know the game to keep a righteous book. That’s why I was ...
Playing a sport at a high level and broadcasting its games are often very different things. While knowledge of the sport is certainly helpful, and a good initial basis, there are a lot of things for ...
As fewer young players learn to keep score, baseball quietly loses a tool that once taught rules, judgment, and how to truly ...