Oh those were the days. I managed (along with my brother) and played semi-pro baseball in the Los Angeles area in the late 60's and early 70's and every game was a war. I love these stories. Hit and run, bunting, hitting behind the runner, the double steal, have become lost arts. I still love the game, but it was more of a game then.
When I look at the play-by-play of these games, the amount of sacrifice bunting called for by Dick Williams and Billy Martin, some of the players who were called on to bunt, and the innings in which some of he bunting took place all shock my modern "sabermetric" sensibilities.
But then I see how tight and low scoring most of the games were, and the decisions of these managers don't seem so shocking.
Oh those were the days. I managed (along with my brother) and played semi-pro baseball in the Los Angeles area in the late 60's and early 70's and every game was a war. I love these stories. Hit and run, bunting, hitting behind the runner, the double steal, have become lost arts. I still love the game, but it was more of a game then.
Don Burden
When I look at the play-by-play of these games, the amount of sacrifice bunting called for by Dick Williams and Billy Martin, some of the players who were called on to bunt, and the innings in which some of he bunting took place all shock my modern "sabermetric" sensibilities.
But then I see how tight and low scoring most of the games were, and the decisions of these managers don't seem so shocking.