Source: www.nysportsday.com --- Thursday, February 01, 2018
As we sit in freezing weather anticipating the coming of spring and another Baseball season, the possibility of making more changes to the game we love also brings about many discussions with fellow fans, and yes, even professionals who will agree and disagree about tweaking the game. I have always been in favor of just leaving the game alone, but then this week my eyes were opened by an elderly man I met in the barbershop. I began my rant about how the powers that be in Baseball are once again trying to ruin our game with more changes. He casually began to tell me that the game has been in a state of change for as long as he could remember. He mentioned how Babe Ruth revolutionized the game after the turn of the century. Taking it from small ball to the big home run era. It wasn’t long before fans began to love seeing Ruth launch baseballs into the bleachers. I gave that a thought and realized that there have been many changes through the years. Yet the game is still the same. In no particular order, here are some of the changes that we have seen that at the time of their inception, were looked at as things that would undoubtedly ruin the game. The DH in the American League was met with skepticism that continues to this day from Baseball purists. We have now seen that It has allowed good players to extend their careers and for us to enjoy them for a few more years. When the two National League teams in town moved to the west co ...
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