tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118802602205940037.post3239202814094019018..comments2024-03-23T14:53:22.831-05:00Comments on Yahoobuckaroo's Blog: Great Photos of Baseball's GreatsYahoobuckaroo's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17621308885893253608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118802602205940037.post-76677070433398837822012-08-24T19:58:39.304-05:002012-08-24T19:58:39.304-05:00I didn't get a pair of hands till I was sixtee...I didn't get a pair of hands till I was sixteen, and I eventually got to be a pretty fair basketball player, but I was a lousy baseball player, at least in the field. I could hit, but I was one of those guys who would run in for a fly ball only to have it go over my head. Me and the bench were well acquainted. I was only in it for the ice-cream.Yahoobuckaroo's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621308885893253608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118802602205940037.post-4579754650114251812012-08-24T06:03:20.121-05:002012-08-24T06:03:20.121-05:00There's not an athletic bone in my body. I pla...There's not an athletic bone in my body. I played Khoury League ball and excelled at keeping the bench anchored in periods of strong wind. But I'm with you on the age thing. I've ALWAYS liked baseball but the older I get the stronger my love of the game becomes. I think it's the tradition...and the pace. It's as much a thinking game as anything else which just about suits my sedentary lifestyle perfectly. That and my eyes are so bad now that there isn't a chance in hell I can follow that little speck in a hockey game. There are a bunch of guys out there today putting up some great numbers so you may be right about the caliber of player today. The other thing I've noticed is that baseball is making a real comeback with younger people in general. My daughter is 27 and she and her friends LOVE the game. Maybe that's as much a St. Louis thing as anything else...I don't know. But it does my heart good to see at least something that transcends time and the generations. There aren't many things left that my granddaughter and my great-grandfather would have in common.<br />Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118802602205940037.post-89358526032774250242012-08-23T11:49:51.070-05:002012-08-23T11:49:51.070-05:00I was never very good at playing, but I sure like ...I was never very good at playing, but I sure like the game. In fact, I like it better now than I did as a kid. There's something special going on this year. I feel like wev'e finally returned to the baseball of old. So many of the young guys today, most of them rookies, remind me of the older generations. Allen Craig, Mike Trout, Anthony Rizzo, Bryce Harper, and Mark Trumbo to name just a few. These guys would be right at home playing with Hornsby and Ruth.Yahoobuckaroo's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621308885893253608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118802602205940037.post-42458881264886689252012-08-23T07:09:13.149-05:002012-08-23T07:09:13.149-05:00I expect that baseball is going to see an upsurge ...I expect that baseball is going to see an upsurge in skill levels in the coming decades as the economy slowly, or perhaps rather quickly, collapses.<br /><br />Baseball is a lot like soccer in other countries. All it takes to play a game is a ball, a bat, a glove and a field. And most of that stuff can be made from scratch if need be. No helmets, no ice, nets or anything else. Basketball is like this, too. They're all sports that poor kids can play. That's why so many of today's great players are coming from the Dominican Republic and other poor nations.<br /><br />America has become too rich and lazy to make great ball players like the guys you show above. They all came from farms and working class families. But we'll see 'em again. As things get tough and the video games, fast food joints, malls and all the rest begin to disappear from our everyday world there'll still be baseball. The gloves'll get oiled up, the bases put down and the sweet sound of wood smacking against leather will be heard again all across this great country.<br /><br />We'll see the VFW leagues come back. The small towns will have their teams again, too. We'll spend those long summer evenings drinking beer and rootin' on the home team. The radios will get turned back on and the theater of the mind will be back in business. And math skills will suddenly be something worth having, too, as we argue the various stats surrounding our favorite players.<br /><br />When baseball was THE national pastime America was a strong and virtuous country. Coincidence? I think not!<br /><br />"Take me out to the ball game,<br />Take me out with the crowd;<br />Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,<br />I don't care if I never get back.<br />Let me root, root, root for the home team,<br />If they don't win, it's a shame.<br />For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,<br />At the old ball game."<br /><br />Man, but I do love this game!Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.com