One of the great things about baseball is that the sport has not changed much since its creation nearly 200 years ago. This makes it extremely easy and fun to compare the game’s greatest players, which is often a difficult task in other sports. These are the six...
While baseball has been lapped by football as America’s most popular sport, it’s still perhaps the athletic event most intrinsically tied into the tapestry of American life. “American as baseball and apple pie” became a phrase for a reason, but...
They say that the World Cup wakes up the national spirit. For Americans, this has been the case despite the country performing dismally in soccer. When Europe and South American teams roar, Americans have watched on the terraces. However, that seems to be changing...
While baseball isn’t generally the most forward-thinking of America’s most popular sports, the MLB has taken some sweeping changes in the past few years to integrate more technology into their activities. It can be seen in everything from biometric...
A fastball pitch in the major leagues can travel across the plate at upwards of 90 MPH. This means it takes roughly a mere 450 milliseconds to travel from the pitcher’s hand across the plate. Just the act of swinging a bat alone takes roughly 150 milliseconds....
Baseball isn’t the cultural touchstone it once was. Where the sport was once intrinsically tied into the public understanding of America’s values and personality, “America’s favorite pastime” has since become dwarfed by football in terms...
