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posted by gupowhod on Nov 30

Sam Crawford the pride of Wahoo, Nebraska holds a record in the baseball record book that may never be broken.

Samuel Earl Wahoo Sam Crawford played at Cincinnati 1899-1902 and the Detroit Tigers along side Ty Cobb The Georgia Peach from 1903-1917. Sam batted left handed and threw left handed and stood 6′0 at 190 lbs. and finished his career with a .390 batting average.

He was inducted into the Hall Of Fame in 1957 and is reported to have lived a spartan life in Pearblossom, California until he died in 1968

Sam Crawford could only manage 312 triples in his playing career. The closet anyone has ever been to that mark was his teammate, Ty Cobb, with 297. Todays active player chasing that figure is Steve Finley at 112 and Kenny Lofton at 98.

Sam’s 312 triples appear to me to be safe for another 100 years in that it has already stood for 89 years and counting.

Crawford as a young man during one summer with 12 other youths, riding a farm wagon across the Nebraska plains played other town teams wherever they could be found. Sam played briefly only 103 games in minor league ball and joined Cincinnati in 1899.

During the time the National and American leagues were warring with each other Sam signed contracts with both Cincinnati and Detroit. When the leagues signed a peace agreement, Sam was awarded to the Detroit Tigers, where he batted behind Ty Cobb.

Sam’s physique was as solid as steel and his dad was reputed to be the strongest man in town.

Wahoo, Nebraska is proud and baseball fans worldwide should tip their cap to this man’s accomplishment of 312 Triples.

Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (retired) still baseballing at http://www.baseballfarming.com for all to enjoy.

Take a youngster to the ball park. Buy some popcorn or cracker jack you’ll go back.

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posted by gupowhod on Nov 30

Soccer has to be one of the original sports games every played by people. I can just imagine cave dwellers kicking around the old soccer ball. Or maybe it was a soccer rock? A soccer coconut perhaps? It’s got to be one of the simplest form of sports play imaginable. I mean, really, I kick the ball this way and you try to kick the ball that way. Whether the ball (coconut?) goes more this way or more that way determines the winner. While it may be easy for me to imagine soccer being kicked around by a bunch of caveman sports enthusiasts, the earliest official record of soccer by played was in China about 3000 years ago. Wow, that’s like 750 World Cups, if anyone was keeping track.

Ultimate Soccer Header

Soccer is also kind of bizarre, in that it’s one of the few sports I can think of where you use your head for more than just strategizing. You actually can use your head to make contact with the ball. Imagine trying that in football (American) or hockey for that matter. Nothing link deflecting a slap shot with the forehead for a game winning goal. Stitches don’t hurt that much. Those soccer guys are kinda funny that way. But the ultimate head shot in soccer was a little more bizarre. Gruesome actually. Apparently in more medieval times, the head of a defeated Dannish prince was used as the ball by early day soccer hooligans in the east of England. Yuck. Think I’d be shopping for some new soccer shoes after that match. It’s a wonder soccer ever caught on with the Danes after a defeat like that one.

Soccer Wars

As with many games these days, soccer had it’s origins on the battlefield. Rival towns would play soccer against each other, with little or no rules, and massive sized teams. Violent, bloody games, with hundreds of people kicking, punching, tripping in an attempt to win the soccer match. Sounds kind of like today, except today, that sounds like a more apt description of the fans instead of the players. You think it’s tough being a soccer referee today, imagine a few hundred years ago. At least today, they keep the fans and referees separated. As time went on, and the local authorities realized that banning soccer wasn’t going to work, more civilized soccer fans brought rules and order to the game of soccer. Not everyone agreed, and there were some splinter groups that went off and formed derivatives of the game. Rugby was one.

Soccer As Civilized Play

So today we have the modern game of soccer that we even allow our children to play. A far reach from the early beginnings of the sport. Perhaps an analogy can be drawn between soccer and many new forms of expression. In the beginning, things can be a bloody mess, but a few thousand years of civility and anything can be reduced to child’s play.

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posted by gupowhod on Nov 29

Doctors are sworn into their profession by the Hippocratic oath.

Yet there has been medical remedy available to improve eyesight of baseball players for several years and no medical journal has provided a hint for it’s use. Hitting a baseball without good eyesight and eye/hand coordination is virtually impossible at the major league or professional playing level.

I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. I may be mistaken and may be misdirected but I still offer the challenge.

There may be drugs available in the marketplace which society deems inappropriate for use and are called illegal. I will go along with doing away with illicit drugs that are physically and mentally habit inducing compounds that totally breakdown the normal life giving functions.

Illegal use of illegal drugs and a detriment to our society should be avoided. Laws governing such illicit sales or use should be enforced and not with only lip service. The eradication of illicit drug use needs the full measure of the law on the case.

Now I’m going back to baseball. There has never been a baseball player to lace on a set of baseball cleats who did not try to improve his playing and performance level. If all players simply played the game at a natural level there would be no need to practice. Just go play, you improve and it’s not fair to little Johnny, whose mother only lets him come out to play on Wednesday.

I’ll bet you the hole of an uneaten doughnut the writer of In The Shadows probably had a cup of coffee late at night while writing his book. Coffee probably had some caffeine in it and was a stay awake inducer. Folks I am simply giving you some food for thought. That hole in the doughnut probably is tasteless.

One thing is for cotton picking sure, or is almost sure. All doctors who have ever taken the Hippocratic oath will not say body performance enhancing steroids is good for better eyesight.

Barry Bonds is the only man in modern day baseball still actively playing who has a ghost of a chance of overtaking six (6) of eight (8) all time hitting records of baseball. I fell off the turnip truck coming into town. Accordingly, I know that the only thing contributing to that achievement is some steroid.

Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (retired) still talking baseball at http://www.baseballfarming.com for those who like baseball.

I am defending nothing but right is right and wrong is wrong to discern the difference sometimes requires courage to speak.

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