Quote of the day
April 4, 2023
The Dodgers are such a team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they’d find it.
~Vin Scully
Month: April 2023
This day in baseball: McCatty’s toy bat
April 2, 2023
On April 2, 1982, during an exhibition contest at Jack Murphy Stadium against the San Diego Padres, Oakland manager Billy Martin ordered pitcher Steve McCatty to go to home plate with a 15-inch toy bat. The move was a protest of the rule preventing the use of the designated hitter in National League ballparks. Umpire Jim Quick refused to let McCatty use the bat, however, so McCatty instead took three called strikes while holding a real bat.
TWIB’s epic April Fool’s prank
April 1, 2023
On April 1, 1989, This Week In Baseball aired the segment below announcing that Major League Baseball has legalized aluminum bats for one season. I have to say, they did a convincing job of it, and I would be curious to find out how many fans fell for this fabricated story.