posts about the national pastime

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Baseball Heritage Posts

Run by @ppepohappy. Mariners fan, autistic, any pronouns

Posts must be at least 6 months old and have 1k+ notes (currently, may change). Posts are those that fit the criteria, without judgement. Submissions will open at some point. This blog runs on a queue.

Tagging notes: All active teams will be tagged with their current name. For example, if a post about the Montreal Expos gets reblogged, the tag would be the Washington Nationals. This makes it easier on me. Additionally, college and Little League teams won’t be tagged because there’s not enough posts for that.

Avatar is a photo of Roberto Clemente. Header is my favorite baseball tweet of all time.

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woman-respecter

not asking this to judge anyone, just curious

off the top of your head can you name a current mlb player besides shohei ohtani?

yes, i could rattle off a whole bunch

yes, a few

yes, but i had to think for a second

no

Voting ended onMay 20

also say in the tags the first player u thought of if u want

#not a heritage post #yet

i think the catcher should be allowed to make out with the pitcher during the mound visit. as long as they want. this would be good for morale, ratings, and the game of baseball itself

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#heritage post #type: baseball intimacy #this. is me. i qualify

Combined faces of top 1800 MLB players

there he is joe baseball

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#heritage post #type: baseball sillies

tumblr keeps putting rpf baseball yaoi on my dash, and like, okay fine I get it. Whatever. But it’s all rpf baseball yaoi of fucking YANKEES PLAYERS. YANKEES PLAYERS??? Tumblr thinks I’m a fuckin YANKEES FAN???? Tumblr coming into my house and accusing me of being a goddamn motherfucking yankees fan???????? You say that to my face. You come to my house in the great beautiful city of Boston Massachusetts and say that to my fucking face tumblr. Ohh when I get my hands on you tumblr. Yankees yaoi. I’m actually for real mad about it.

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#heritage post #type: baseball sillies #type: baseball intimacy #(<- ? no tag for baseball rpf yet)#league: major league baseball #team: new york yankees (mlb)#team: boston red sox (mlb)#type: baseball hatred

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#heritage post #type: baseball sillies #team: seattle mariners (mlb)#league: major league baseball

baseball is basically about man butt and the short violent arc of American history.

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#heritage post #type: baseball meta

fulda-gap-express

who is the Toronto baseball warlock

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#heritage post #type: baseball sillies #league: major league baseball #team: toronto blue jays (mlb)#time: postseason

Baseball teams should add a position, whose role is to take a bean ball and die at home plate, whose training consists of treading the veil between, befriending psychopomps, angering deities, whose uniform includes an ornamental bullseye, and whose position title is that of "forsaken pig".

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#heritage post #type: baseball sillies

The more I learn about baseball, the more interesting it seems, which is weird because I'm not really a sports person

Anyways I wanna share something neat that I learned but I'm gonna preface this by saying that I'm not "into" baseball. I'm just visiting the baseball zoo and reading the little blurbs the have on the cages

With that out of the way, when you swing a bat, your momentum naturally goes with the bat, right? So for righties, immediately after batting, their momentum starts to take them to third base, meaning they have to fight against the bat's momentum before running to first

But for lefties, the bat's momentum is already taking them to first! Apparently lefties can, on average, reach first base a sixth of a second faster than righties

Apparently it also makes a difference in receiving a pitch, since a righty receiving a pitch from a righty will see it coming from behind their shoulder, but a lefty receiving a pitch from a righty can clearly see the ball

Because of this, they started bringing in lefty pitchers to counteract the lefty batters and the result is a sport with 2-4x as many lefties as the general public

alanfromrochester

even as a sports nerd, I had heard of lefty batters having an advantage seeing righty pitchers, but not the idea of lefties getting to first base slightly quicker (which would make a difference on close throws).

Also fielding angles make lefties better suited to certain positions

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thingsfandomshavetaughtme

I just really hate the word "fandom". It's just a portmanteau of "fan" and "random". It sounds like some desperate attempt to be quirky and different. Plus, the word "fanbase" already exists.

idk, i thought it was fan + kingdom, or fanatic + domain??

but yeah, it is a bit weird how we have ‘fandom’ when ‘fanbase’ already existed? but that’s language for you, always changing all the time

Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).

The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.

Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers.

So, seeing as the OED does not provide free access to its sources, I looked this up. According to various webpages, included this one, ‘fandom’ was used in 1903 by the Cincinnati Enquirer to refer to baseball fans.

Thus not only do we have an early example of a word that combines ‘fanatic’ with ’-dom’ as in 'kingdom’, we also have a useful reminder that when it comes to excessively liking things to the point of it being its own subculture, people who are into sports have the rest of us beat by several orders of magnitude.

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another win for baseball, the greatest sport ever

thingsfandomshavetaughtme

I just really hate the word "fandom". It's just a portmanteau of "fan" and "random". It sounds like some desperate attempt to be quirky and different. Plus, the word "fanbase" already exists.

idk, i thought it was fan + kingdom, or fanatic + domain??

but yeah, it is a bit weird how we have ‘fandom’ when ‘fanbase’ already existed? but that’s language for you, always changing all the time

Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).

The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.

Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers.

So, seeing as the OED does not provide free access to its sources, I looked this up. According to various webpages, included this one, ‘fandom’ was used in 1903 by the Cincinnati Enquirer to refer to baseball fans.

Thus not only do we have an early example of a word that combines 'fanatic’ with ’-dom’ as in 'kingdom’, we also have a useful reminder that when it comes to excessively liking things to the point of it being its own subculture, people who are into sports have the rest of us beat by several orders of magnitude.

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#heritage post #type: baseball meta

what if the pitcher threw a christian baby but it got raptured at the moment of the swing but since the batter swung it counted as a strike and it cost them the game

flightlessbirdgirl

rule 6.01(e)

the umpire would be justified in awarding the batter with the run as if the pitch had connected and they would be able to win the game (and the millions of dollars)

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I don't believe in christian babies. I believe in babies, i believe in christians, but a baby doesn't have the agency and cognitive abilities required to chose and/or live a faith. There's babies of christian parents, of course, as well as babies that have been introduced into the system that is the christian church, but that does not make them christian yet.

Long story short, i did not hit a christian baby into the stratosphere, officer.

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halloweentrickortreat

Neighbors: Isn’t it a little early for the Halloween decorations?

Me:

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happy opening day to old people who keep score in the stands, field pigeons who harrass outfielders during play, snack shack workers, ticket takers, lesbians on game day dates, girls who play on Little League teams, cotton candy hawkers, whoever repairs and replaces the lightbulbs in stadium lights, radio board operators, shitty bisexual stadium DJs, non-American players, transgender fans of all kinds, field maintenance workers who trip pulling the tarp up, abysmal first pitch throwers, Renel Brooks-Moon, people who take the bus, train, or ferry to games, my boyfriend, first time fans, lifelong fans, diva pitchers, diva shortstops, guys who sell hotdogs and merch on the sidewalk after games, minor leaguers, college softball players who are better than all baseball players but never get paid for their contributions to the sport, seagulls who shit on people and then take their french fries, umpires who get silly with it calling strikes, camera operators, stadium janitors, and you.

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team mate; ohh my god tom look out

baseball: *careening*

guy whos wearing baseball mitts on both hands but hes stuck grasping the spheres of light and truth:

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