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Although Baseball has never been a stranger to controversy. From the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, to Pete Rose betting on baseball, to Sammy Sosa’s corked bat. And now the on going soap opera of Barry Bonds suspected steroid use, it is in no way hurting in the ratings and fan department.

Why is this?

I think I have the answer, but of course, it is just my opinion.

Remember the baseball of the 70’s and 80’s, the days of the tight uniforms and relief pitchers being driven to the mound in carts that looked like big baseballs.

It was the days when a slugger only needed to hit 28 home runs to lead the league in homers, and the triple crown didn’t seem like an impossibility.

The days before anyone had coined the term set up man for the pitcher that came in in the eighth inning, and the only thing intimidating about a relief pitcher was his mullet.

Lets face it, and no pun intended, baseball needed a shot in the arm.

I mean who wants to go to a game and watch batters hit singles all day. I sure don’t.

Thank God for Maguire, Bonds, Sosa, Ken Griffey jr, Palmero, etc. Regardless of what they were pumping into their bodies, they made baseball exciting again.

And why is all the focus of suspected steroid use on the sluggers only? What about the pitchers? They are bigger and bulkier than ever, and more and more can rush a fast ball up their at 100 plus mph. Why are they not under a microscope?

If guys like Barry Bonds are going to be criticized for using performance enhancing drugs, than perhaps they should ban pitchers from having Tommy John surgery because it is considered performance enhancing surgery.

As you may or may not know, after this surgery, a pitcher always comes back with better velocity on the ball.

Cheating and baseball go hand in hand. From doctoring up the baseball, to corked bats, to steroid use. If a player can find an angle to improve his game and believe that he can get away with it, he most definitely will. Lets just hope they don’t all end up like Ken Caminiti.

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The game of baseball is full of moments which are filled with many strange and sometimes oops! I’m sorry. The playing field is a place where sometimes it’s action with humor and sometimes it is serious circumstance.

First and foremost I have often been told by coaches when on that ball diamond be alert and heads up all the time. This caution and method of play is the only way to stay in a game.

Mike Bryan was a feller who stood about 5 foot 8 inches and was a baseball pitching machine. He could turn a baseball loose and it would literally hum as it whistled home plate bound. I do think our coach considered Mike the Ace on our team with some very good pitchers from which to choose. Mike always received his share of starts along with Hal Gwin, Sherman Forehand, Ed Massey and Joe Faucett.

Mike was the only one of this group of fine twirlers who after high school ball played on a college scholarship. Mike enjoyed some fine and enjoyable playing of baseball with the Mississippi State Bulldogs down in Starkville, Mississippi. He possibly also enjoyed baseball along with Dicky Wages in the deep south heat at Itawamba Junior College down near Fulton, Mississippi.

Do you really want to know how a pitcher was knocked from the game before the game started. I’ll make it short and to the point because it still causes goose bumps this Oops! I’m sorry.

When a starting pitcher for a game takes the mound he is allowed so many pitches to warm up from the mound. On the last pitch of these warm up tosses the catcher throws to second base as if an imaginary runner is stealing. The pitcher knows the throw is going and he is suppose to step from the mound to the left or the right. The catcher throwing that perfect peg to second the ball travels right where the pitcher would be on that rubber.

Mike momentarily forget this little get out of the way thing and the catcher Bill Goodwin turned that ball loose before he realized Mike was in the target zone. There was no way Bill could call that ball back before “Bonk” it caught Mike in the back of his noggin. Lucky for us all Mike was not hurt seriously but being a little woozy coach had to send in a relief.

There it is folks our pitcher knocked out of the game even before the umpire could cry, “Play Ball.”

Batter Up! Let’s Play Ball…

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