The conditions for consideration to the baseball Hall of Fame specifically invoke the integrity clause (“voting shall be based upon the player’s record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played.”), whereas for the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame (unwritten) rules for induction require lurid details of bad behavior, lol
Simpson's criminal career began after he retired from pro football. Woods' DUI arrest and marital troubles were scandalous, but have nothing to do with golf.
No wonder it took them 40 years to get Rush in there. I think Alex Lifeson got into a fight once. Obviously ineligible.
A person can be voted in for success as a player, manager, executive or even an umpire. Obviously Rose would go in solely for his playing history.
i was badly effected and still recovering from the surgeries i had as a preteen when all the other kids were developing the skills and coordination to play competetition sports... .. so i never got involved in things like softball or volleyball as a teenager... or even the traditional and individual sports common to hawaii...( like surfing - freediving - archery etc)... until i was almost grown... in fact around the same time i was joining the old fff under the name of chupacabra i was also just getting started in those solo endeavors.... but not without some caution to make certain i didn;t re-destroy what surgery had repaired years before....
They promoted pot enough to have all the bona fides.
The proximity of the fielders to the ball flying off the bat in softball sure means it ain’t for the faint of heart. One of my brothers coached very competitive girls softball travel team and though there were different challenges coaching girls. He said flat out that the girls had a higher pain tolerance than many other boys that he coached in other things. And there were plenty of boys that I coached that had a hard time figuring out how to slide, including ALAYBOY. Sliding into a baseball bag is an easy way to get fingers, ankles, and knees injured badly if not done with proper coordination.
I came up in the baseball school of thought that said that sliding into first base was not competitively advantageous (didn’t really get you to the bag faster), and, it introduced a lot more risk of injury to the runner and fielder. Like many arguments in life, there are many opposing opinions, but more variables need to be analyzed to answer the question about sliding into first being in anyway advantageous. In this day and age of analytics we can be a bit more informed , here you go….
Oh, I'm sure they all smoked their fair share of weed back in the 70s (Geddy Lee once remarked that they wrote Caress of Steel while high), but they didn't allow the habit to get out of control or affect their ability to do their jobs. Compared to their contemporaries, they were clean-living family men.
There would be a small speed advantage at the last moment from going horizontal. But as far as I know, the main purpose of sliding into any other base is to get past the baseman before he can tag you. Since the batter is allowed to run through first, and the first baseman doesn't need to physically touch the batter (only beat him to the base), the advantage seems negligible. I suppose on those uncommon occasions that a runner needs to go back, it might be useful.
in softball they have actually started putting an expanded or extra bag at first base - just
That’s a great idea. My issue was always the leg tuck, but I was fast enough that coaches would let me run it out in baseball. Now, as an adult in softball leagues, no one is sliding except accidentally from bad knees and hips!
That’s almost the only time I ever did a slide, otherwise I was statistically better off not sliding. That’s me though, and I sucked at sliding. I wasn’t much of a hitter either. I was the guy who usually got put in right field.
i would have probably been a disaster at softball/baseball even if i had been fit enough to play.... i was very prone to accidents... ..i didn;t even have to be in a game or even attending one to get hurt by it.... i got hit in the head once with a baseball when i was a teenager, and none of us in the group even saw it coming... it was batted by someone playing over 100 yards away on the other side of some trees... i can only imagine what would have happened if i had ever tried to slide into a base... ..but then i guess you would have to hit the ball before you get the opportunity to do that anyway...That’s almost the only time I ever did a slide, otherwise I was statistically better off not sliding. That’s me though, and I sucked at sliding. I wasn’t much of a hitter either. I was the guy who usually got put in right field.
..so i probably would have been ok... as long as there was a strong net in front of the dugout....
I was never accident prone, but my athleticism just never quite carried over to baseball. Compared to some of the other guys, I did get a late start though. Some of those guys started playing at 5 years old. I was very good at basketball and tennis, and halfway good at baseball and golf. I lacked the height in basketball to go anywhere with it, even at the point guard position. Tennis was probably my best bet, but we lacked the cash for me to truly get to the next level with that sport.i would have probably been a disaster at softball/baseball even if i had been fit enough to play.... i was very prone to accidents... ..i didn;t even have to be in a game or even attending one to get hurt by it.... i got hit in the head once with a baseball when i was a teenager, and none of us in the group even saw it coming... it was batted by someone playing over 100 yards away on the other side of some trees... i can only imagine what would have happened if i had ever tried to slide into a base... ..but then i guess you would have to hit the ball before you get the opportunity to do that anyway...
haha, the “put ‘em in right field” thing became less of an option for coaches as a place to hide players the further up the chain of game strategy and development that you went. That usually only worked for a coach to hide the unskilled player through junior high.That’s almost the only time I ever did a slide, otherwise I was statistically better off not sliding. That’s me though, and I sucked at sliding. I wasn’t much of a hitter either. I was the guy who usually got put in right field.
I don’t know if you are aware of the state of youth sports now, or if it is like this in your area, but what we typically know in “rec league” lawsports, where every kid in the community is invited to come and play for the team(s) is a slightly dying breed these days, caused by specialized travel teams where the best players in a community are poached to field a team that is akin to the post-season rec league “all stars”. In turn, one of the side effects is that kids are forced to choose a sport to specialize in at a younger and younger age. There are several toxic results from this phenomenon. Parents who think that their kid is going to get a D1 college scholarship because they start at three years old taking Junior and Suzy to a special sports trainer, and other similar idiocy. Read more here…