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From: hora@ecf.toronto.edu (HO ROBERT ANDREW)
Subject: Re: The origin of the _World_ Series
Keywords: history world series trivia newspaper
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:51:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.155954.6079@cs.cornell.edu> tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer) writes:
>In article <1992Oct15.193346.4382@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> drw3l@delmarva.evsc.Virginia.EDU (David Robert Walker) writes:
>>
>>Hockey: The NHL, if memory serves, is as much a US invention as
>>Canadian, though with more Canadian players by far. I give Canada
>>full credit for being ahead of the US in hockey. But not necessarily
>>the world. Europe plays excellent hockey. (Founding cities of the NHL
>>include New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, and Toronto)
>
>I don't think there is any contest here.  The Olympic hockey teams
>(both Canadian and US) are quite competitive.  And they simply aren't
>*close* to the level of the NHL.  In 1994 (?), we will probably see
>a team of (Canadian) NHL stars play in the Olympics.  I believe they
>will win by even bigger margins than the Basketball Dream Team did.

Hmmm.  I don't know about that.  The Dream Team absolutely crushed their 
opposition and there was never any doubt that they wouldn't capture gold.
Presumably, if the NHL breaks its schedule during the 94 Olympics, then
non-Canadian NHLers would play for their respective countires.  While the
majority of the top NHL players in Canadian, a significant portion of them
are not (Lafontaine, Stevens, Leetch for the U.S. most notably, but also
Bure, Jagr, Federov, Mogilny etc.)  To see how close the top players of
the U.S. and the (former) Soviet Union are, just take a look at the last two
Canada Cups.  I think Team Canada would definitely be the favourite, but
not in the same way the Dream Team was (and it would not be all that 
surprising if the U.S. or the C.I.S. were to win hockey gold in '94)

(BTW sorry for the hockey oriented intrusion into this newsgroup)

>
>>The moral is, if you want to claim the world championship of 
>>something, invent a game, and make sure no one else in the world
>>plays it. :-)
>
>Yup.  Much easier than trying to become world champs of volleyball,
>soccer, or cricket.  Though we generally do okay with the Americas
>Cup.
>
>-Valentine
>-- 
>Make outs, not walks!					tedward@cs.cornell.edu
>Clemens four Cy Young!


-- 
Robert Ho
Univ. of Toronto
hora@ecf.toronto.edu
From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: NLCS Game #5 at 9:41
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:06:56 GMT
Reply-To: roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig)
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

In article <7563@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.170357.5813@cs.cornell.edu> tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer) writes:
>>>Why is it?  With a man on third a out the walk and the out produce exactly
>>>the same result - NO RUN!

>>*That* time, it produced no runs.  Next time, perhaps Jeff King will
>>hit a 2-RBI double?  Or a 3-run HR?  Or maybe just get a single to
>>drive in the lead runner himself.

>Excuse me but were in the OPB stat, or any other stat for that matter, is
>Jeff King's "potential hit" reflected?  When a hitter steps to the plate it
>is his job to produce, period!  

How do you know he didn't?  Perhaps a walk was all there *was* to produce 
there.  

Keep in mind that there's a pitcher here, too.  This ain't T-ball.  In  
order for King to hit, he has to have a pitch to hit, first.    No pitch
to hit -- then the menu has only two options: walk and out.  Which do 
you prefer?

>It is not his job to step out of the way and
>give the guy behind him a chance to get the hit, which is exactly what this
>walk did.  

How do you know?  His walk *also* meant that he didn't *fail* at his job
by getting an out.  Perhaps there was simply no hit to be had with the
pitches he was thrown.

>It could also be argued that with two outs and a runner at third and the team 
>down five runs, Jeff King's assumed hit might be more valuable as the lead off
>hit of the next inning.  

No.

>If your arguing that taking the bat out of the hands of one of the top hitters 
>in the game and placing it in the hands of a significantly less qualified hitter
>and leaving it up to him to drive in the run, is a positive thing, you're 
>wasting your time.  

Nobody's arguing that.  YOU, on the other hand, seem to consider a walk
no better than an out, which is true only if the guy(s) after 
King in the lineup are .000 hitters.  Again: what makes you think King
*could* have gotten a hit?  With what likelihood?  Even a .333 hitter makes
out two times out of three when he's not walking; that walk is better than all
of those outs.

>I rather take the out and hope for a lead off hit from King
>with the chance to pinch hit for the pitcher.

Then you lose a lot.  Why throw away a baserunner on third?

Roger
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From: sgs@stein.u.washington.edu (Steven Smith)
Subject: Birthdays
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:03:32 GMT

Baseball Birthdays

October 16
Leon "Goose" Goslin, 1900 (HOF)
Tim McCarver, 1941
Walter "Boom-Boom" Beck, 1904
Kevin McReynolds, 1959
Matt Batts, 1921
Jack Baldschun, 1936
Don Hood, 1949
Brian Harper, 1959
Rodney Scott, 1953

October 17
Buck Ewing, 1859 (HOF)
Red Rolfe, 1908
Jim "Junior" Gilliam, 1928
Johnny Klippstein, 1927
Oom Paul Derringer, 1906
Dan Pasqua, 1961
Ken Dixon, 1960
Glenn Braggs, 1962

October 18
Willie Horton, 1942
Joggin' George Hendrick, 1949
ROy Cullenbine, 1915
Andy Carey, 1931
Jerry Royster, 1952
Ed Farmer, 1949
Andy Hassler, 1951
Bobby Knoop, 1938
Burt Shotten, 1884
Skeet Newsome, 1910
Charlie Berry, 1902
Babe Pinelli, 1895
Boileryard Clarke, 1868

--Steve
-- 
 sgs@u.washington.edu             * 
 Steve Smith                      * "We want a manager, not whatever that
 University of Washington HR-20   *  was we had last year." 
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From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Subject: Re: Random musings upon perusing Baseball Weekly statistics
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:22:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.115925.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov> kasper@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes:

>3. The new Ruben ("I'm going to work hard on my fielding") Sierra had pitiful
>fielding stats again this year (2.06 range factor compared to league average
>2.22; 7 errors, 6 assists).  Among right field regulars only Sierra (6/7),
>Pasqua (4/6, but a 2.26 range factor), and Von Hayes (1/3, but a 2.24 range
>factor) had fewer assists than errors (although there's probably very little
>meaning in this - assists are a notoriously bad way to evaluate the throwing
>ability of outfielders because runners almost certainly take fewer chances
>against fielders with good arms thus giving those with good arms fewer
>opportunities for assists).  But Ruben continues among the league leaders in
>whining about how he is treated.

Bill James is rolling over in his grave.  

Runners do *not* necessarily take fewer chances against outfielders with
good arms; if they did, then the people with high assist totals like
Jesse Barfield or Mark Whiten would not *consistently* lead the league
in assists.

The silliness of the stat you cited lies in the *error* part, not the
assist part.  All errors are really subjective, but OUTFIELDER ones are
ridiculously so.  An outfielder can let a ball bounce right past him,
and as long as he doesn't touch it, he doesn't get an error.  But let
him throw a ball from the corner to a spot an inch in front of an infielder
and he'll get called for it.

>4. Chris Hoiles throws out only 20% of base stealers. Is this a comment on
>Hoiles' arm or on O's pitchers? Both?

Neither, really.  
I know it isn't the pitchers because Tackett threw out a much higher
percentage of runners.

I know it isn't Hoiles' arm because (1) in other years he's thrown out
high %age of runners, and (2) all through the minors, he was touted as
having the greatest arm in the world.  Great quotes in prospect books
like "Even if he doesn't hit, he'll make it to the majors on the
strength of his arm and game calling ability."

I think the technical term for this is "random statistical fluke."

(As far as I know, Hoiles was having trouble w/ baserunners BEFORE his
injury.  If not, I guess you could blame his injury.)

-- 
David M. Nieporent   | Orioles 1993 World Series Champions
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From: rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising)
Subject: Vote Huckabay & Lundy on Nov. 3
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:14:31 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

What!  Put someone in the Whitehouse with some brains and a sense
of humor?  No recent precedent!
-- 
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From: kettler@pierre.mit.edu (KETTLER, THOMAS R.)
Subject: Public Stadiums in general (Was: Re: SF offer for Giants)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: MIT Lab for Nuclear Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:54:00 GMT

In article <13OCT199211565482@juliet.caltech.edu>, aaron@juliet.caltech.edu (Packman, Aaron I. writes...
> 
> 
>Personally, I think the team should be allowed to move to Tampa.  The fact is,
>Lurie made every reasonable effort to keep the team in SF.  And he's been
>taking a financial bloodbath for the last few years.  Basically, SF has shown
>that it is unwilling and unable to support the Giants.  I don't think SF
>deserves the Giants.  IMO, the only reason that there's any delay at all is 
>because AL owners don't want two NL teams in Florida.  I just hope the
>owners do what's right and let the team move.  
> 
>Oh, I also hope that there won't be any lawsuits over this.  Unfortunately,
>I think there will be one brought forward by the eventual losing city.
> 
Aaron, you are somewhat inaccurate in what you are saying. First, only twice 
did San Francisco vote down a new stadium. The other two times were Santa Clara 
county and last, the city of San Jose. 

My problem with all of these is that the millionaires consistently want the 
stadiums funded publicly. I am extremely angry about the proposal for a new 
stadium in Alexandria, VA where $100 million would be funded by the state of 
Virginia since it would be for a football team owned by a billionaire. The 
reason why people say that they want publicly funded stadiums is that the team 
brings millions of dollars to a city. However, I don't think that this is 
accurate for the modern "cookie-cutter" stadiums since they have so much 
parking that rarely do people stay in the city after the game is over so only 
money from parking and concessions is received other than the tickets instead 
of money which goes to local businesses and provides jobs for the people of the 
cities which had to pay the taxes to build the stadium in the first place.

					Sincerely yours,

					Thomas R. Kettler "Expos Fanatic"
From: zuhars@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Yutzboy Huckabay)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: The Superlatives of the NL
Date: 7 Oct 92 22:28:34 GMT
Organization: Y-Bron, Inc. (Thornley Division)

Dean "The Headmaster" Falcione writes:

>>Most disappointing pitcher: Andy Benes
>Dwight Gooden.

How do you figure?  Did anyone expect anything from him?  If you're
expecting him to be average, and he is, why should you be
disappointed?

Gooden is no longer a #1 starter type guy.  Hasn't been for about
three or four years.  1984 was a long time and a lot of pitches on a
tired arm ago.

I wonder what would have happened if Gooden had come up under Dave
Duncan and Tony LaRussa, and a bullpen of Eckersley, Nelson (in his
prime), Honeycutt, and Curt Young (The anti-Mc Clendon.)

>>MVP: Terry Pendleton (the core of the Atlanta Braves each day)
>Bonds was as much Pittsburgh's core as Pendleton was Atlanta's.  And Bonds
>put up better numbers.

I don't even see an argument for Pendleton.

>>Best hitter: Gary Sheffield (great in the clutch, superior power, average,
>>RBI)
>
>Sheffield and Bonds.  Tie.

Bonds out-OBPed Sheffield by what, 70 points?  No 'tie' about it.

>>Best leadoff man: Bip Roberts
>Otis Nixon and Brett Butler.

Wash.  I'd rather have Roberts, I think.

>>Most disappointing hitter: Matt Williams
>Tim Wallach gets honorable (dishonorable?) mention.

Huh?  Again, did you *expect* a 97-year old Wallach, who's never
posted a monster OBP in his life, and has shown less than fantastic
power, to suddenly hit?  All he did was take PA away from promising
hitters.  I think Leyland paid the Expos off to play him, personally.
-- 
*    Gary Huckabay     * "You see, I can prove to you that Lance Blankenship  *
*  "Rhymes with see."  *  is a superior ballplayer to Ryne Sandberg."  "How?" *
* "May not be suitable * "Lance has more rings.  Ryno's never been there. He  *
*  for all audiences." *  just chokes every year, and disappoints the Cubs."  *
From: genetic+@pitt.edu (Dr. Dave)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: In Defence of Fair-Weather Fans
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:10:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Industrial Engineering

Thus spake (Gerry Gryschuk):

>From article <1992Oct12.084618.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, by jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (The Econoclast):

>> In Defence of Fair-Weather Fans
>> by John Palmer
>[a whole bunch of bandwagon rationalizing deleted ...]

>All I can say to this John is that although the feeling of cheering for a
>winning team is good it is nothing compared to cheering for a loosing team
>that eventually gets to be a winning team. Sticking with a team through
>its worst times makes the good times infinitely more gratifying. 

Gerry, like John Reynard before you, you seem to have missed the point of 
what John Palmer was saying.  Nowhere did he say that it is *wrong* to be
a fan of a bad team, or to get enjoyment out of baseball in whatever way
works best for you.  What he *did* say is that there is no inherent *moral*
superiority that attaches to "loyalty to the team".  Neither you nor John
Reynard have said anything to contradict that claim.  You may personally
think that Palmer's ideas are icky, and misguided, but you haven't really
disagreed with the main point of his article.

Yes, it's tremendously gratifying to follow a bad team that becomes good.
Does this mean that people who *don't* stick with bad teams should be subject
to censure?  No, it just means that they won't get that same rush you get.
Their loss.

Consider
>all the die-hard Jays fans that are right now in a near state of ecstasy,
>I submit that you will never know how really good this feels.

What does this have to do with whether or not it is a character flaw to be
a fair-weather fan?  That was the claim being refuted.  

>I would say I feel sorry for you but I doubt you want or need our pity.

Probably a good guess.


-- 
       David Tate        |"Out of the dugout endlessly swinging,
 dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu | Out of the manager's throat, the sound fundamentals,
 Prof. of Story Problems | Out of the six-month season..."            
 Member ORSA, TIMS, SABR | 	Walt "Lefty" Whitman
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From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
Subject: Re: Err...John Birch?
Originator: news@nimaster
Reply-To: roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:07:03 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.165022.953@cm.cf.ac.uk> G.R.Price@cm.cf.ac.uk (G R Price) writes:

>Having at one time studied American politics I thought I was
>fairly well up on things, but who the hell is John Birch?

Supposedly the first American killed in post-WW-II Asia.  The Society
named after him is a bunch of far-right-wing paranoids who have been
remarkably quiet the last few years...to the Birchers, Barry Goldwater
was a dangerous liberal.

Roger
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From: maceache@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tim Maceachern)
Subject: Re: (was) Who's winning game #6 - ALCS
Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:50:23 GMT

baseball@catch-the-fever.scd.ucar.edu (Gregg Walters) writes:

>Bottom 1st
>    Joe Carter had a 2 run homer.

>Top 3rd
>    Guzman strikes out the side.

Wasn't this the inning that Guzman struck out three, with a passed ball
allowing the first man to get to first.  The last out was a fly out to
short or third - I would have liked to see a four strikeout inning!  Surely
that hasn't happened in playoff play yet...

Tim MacEachern
From: tmiller@prism.gatech.EDU (Thomas Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: In Defence of Fair-Weather Fans
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:48:24 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <Bw8734.AEz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, rstimets@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (robert and stimets) writes:

  (much deleted)

> My claim is that those people sour the taste of baseball.  Yeah, it's great
> to CHOP-CHOP all the way to the series and WOOF about your team when they
> get hot, but to say (during the lean years) things like "the Braves suck!!"
> and "Go Falcons! And take the Braves with you!" is an embarrasment.

  
  Which is why I'm glad that I didn't do it.  Of course, I didn't have
any interest in baseball, much less the Braves, then either.  Now, I
love baseball, in all its forms.  Magazines, cards, games, trivia...
I'm into it all, and I thank the Braves' season for that.


  But...remember, virtually all of the new "fair-weather" fans were
never fans (either the + or - kind) before 1991.  And the Braves hadn't
had a really good year since 1982.  It's possible that there may be
quite a lot of fans for the next few years even if the Braves aren't
contending.  But then again, no one can say until it happens.
  If the Braves make the NLCS in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996, will 
this mean that all their fans are _still_ fair-weather fans since no
losing season would have happened yet?  Unfortunately, I think that 
the answer to this is yes.
  What if they have a losing 1993, then a winning 1994?  If I rooted
for them and went to 120+ games in 1993, and cheered on in 1994, am
I still a "fair-weather" fan since they didn't have a long-term,
multi-season slump?
  What is it going to take?  Personally, I like the current combination
of players, but in 10 years, they'll all be gone or retired.  And even
then I might say, "Hey, I've watched the Braves since the early '90s"
and other people might say, "So?  No one ever watched them until the
'91 season.  You're not a fan."


  I do agree, though - the negative fans are an embarrassment to the
game.  To watch Justice being bombarded by peanuts was...depressing.
Even though he was being a jerk at the time.



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From: (Gerry Gryschuk)
Subject: More on Morris (Was Re: Bonds in Game 4:  The Last Straw)
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:29:17 GMT

From article <1992Oct12.014236.8413@midway.uchicago.edu>, by thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell):
> And how about Morris's pitching to the score with that one-run lead, hunh?

Hey come on Sherri already figured this one out remember, Jack's psychic(or was
that psychotic?). Therefore he knew he could give up 5 runs and the Jays
would get 6 to win, unfortunately Gaston pulled Morris and Stottlemyre gave
up that extra run thus forcing the game to extra innings. This must have really
shook up Jack since he no longer had control over his vision but the Jays
bailed him out anyway.

Then again, the announcers were saying how Morris thinks Stottlemyre is so
much like him, so maybe Morris has taught Todd this psychic trick and he used
it to forecast that he could afford to give up that run.
--
Gerald Gryschuk            Saskatoon,Saskatchewan = a place with 9 months
gerry@sask.usask.ca           of hockey and 3 months of poor skating.
Go Habs!!!
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From: gmoenne@lascar.puc.cl (Gerardo Moenne)
Subject: Baseball Basic Rules
Organization: U. Catolica
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:34:03 GMT

Hello!!

My name is Gerardo and I'm writing from chile. I work in an educational 
network with children between 10 and 15 years old. We have a discution list
about Sport and the children had been asking for information about Baseball.

I hope someone can post or mail to me (gmoenne@lascar.puc.cl) the basic rules
of this interesting sport. Prease feel free for sending any other information
(i.e. stadistics) you think Chilean student should be interest in.


Thank in advance

Gerardo Moenne
From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Clemens for Gonzalez?
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:40:20 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Oct14.164341.4704@news2.cis.umn.edu>, thornley@giga.cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) writes:
> In article <92287.234231RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes:
> >prediction: boston trades clemens.  clemens decides to become an outfielder.
> >clemens bats .356 with 60 dingers.
> >
> Naw, they'd have to sell him for that to happen, trading him just won't
> cut it.

Depends on who they trade him for.  How about Alfredo Griffin?  Are you
listening, Lou?  Just kidding, Valentine!


> David Thornley
> "The evil that men do lasts unto the third generation, certainly longer
> than a Soviet government." 

-- 

#include <std_disclaimer.h>


Dan S.
From: tmiller@prism.gatech.EDU (Thomas Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Pirates woofing
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:49:40 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology



  Geez.  If it's this bad now, imagine what it will be like if the
Pirates win tonight, and win games during the world series...

  Perhaps one good thing for Atlanta : Dave Justice hit 2 home runs
himself, plus a single.  At least he knows that he wasn't part of
the problem.
  Of course, any of these big-scoring one-sided games could be blamed
on the poor starting pitcher performance.  Drabek in Games 1 and 4.
Avery in Game 5.  Glavine in Game 6.
  I think it's safe to say that Atlanta's survival depends on Smoltz
keeping his head (and arm) tonight for at least the first half of
the game.  Who will be pitching for the Pirates tonight?



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From: maceache@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tim Maceachern)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: What role for Jack Morris?
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:24:54 GMT
Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada

roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:

>	A CBC reporter said that after all the hoopla died down at Skydome 
>last night, Jack Morris went out for "2 hrs" and "pitched a simulated game"

>  If this is  true it would mean he ain't gonna be pitching on Saturday. 
>On the other hand, maybe he was just loosening up. What is the chance of 
>Jimmy Key seeing action in the "World" series.

>Roger C. Green,	Faculty of Medicine                      Phone: (709)737-6884
>Memorial University , St. John's, Newfoundland.          FAX  : (709)737-7010

The Globe and Mail, "Canada's National Newspaper", had an article today
which included a line to the effect that Cito used a 3-an rotation in the
ALCS, with pitchers pitching on 3 days rest.  The next line said that would
be changed to four in the World Series.  Unfortunately it didn't say whether
that was a 4-man rotation or 4 days rest.  I assume it is both.  Seems to
me the ideal lineup would be Cone, Key, Guzman then (ack) Morris.

Tim MacEachern