His Contribution to Baseball Lena Blackburne and his contribution to baseball is unusual. Blackburne was born on October 23, 1886 in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. However, he lived most of his life in Palmyra, New Jersey. He was a mediocre player to say the least. He batted and threw right handed. With a lifetime batting average of .214, he hit …
Merkle’s Bonehead Play applies to baseball rule four – specifically 4.09. It has to do with a batted ball and touching bases by every runner to end a game with the sacks full. HANK O’DAY UMPIRE & MANAGER “On a batted ball a run cannot score if all runners do not touch the next base or …
The Marty Appel interview of Jimmy Piersall was unusual to say the least. Jimmy Piersall is now approaching 85 years old, an unforgettable character in baseball in the 1950’s. Piersall wrote a book of his bizarre actions on the baseball diamond. He was diagnosed with mental illness and was sent to an institution and received electric …