Here’s an infographic that includes an eclectic collection of numbers from 2011 surrounding the game of baseball. I particularly dig the 2 million kids playing ball in the bottom left. Gotta start ’em off right!
On October 1, 2005, the Kansas City Royals established a dubious team record when they recorded their 105th loss for the season, losing 10-1 to the Toronto Blue Jays. It was one of three out of four seasons during this time period that the Royals lost one hundred games or more.
Nine years later, on September 30, 2014, Kansas City defeated Oakland 9-8 in twelve innings to win the AL Wild Card game, their first postseason win in almost thirty years.
Here’s something fun from Sportsnet Canada, featuring some of the grips of select pitches thrown by the Toronto Blue Jays pitching staff. The lineup is a little out of date, but the mechanics and physics of throwing all the various pitches never fail to fascinate. My own half-hearted attempts at throwing a curve ball as a kid never proved fruitful, but then, I was never that committed to becoming a pitcher.
To continue our journey through Terry Cashman’s “Talkin’ Baseball” variations, here is the version that celebrates today’s only Canadian team, the Toronto Blue Jays.
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The Christmas holiday is less than two weeks away, and in the spirit of the season, here’s an amusing tune about a kid wishing for a Roy Halladay-autographed baseball glove from Santa. Ironically, approximately two weeks after this song was released, Roy Halladay found himself traded from the Blue Jays to the Phillies.
During Game 4 of the 1993 World Series, Charlie Williams became the first black umpire to work home plate during the World Series. Played at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, the game took a record four hours and fourteen minutes to complete as the Toronto Blue Jays won 15-14 over the Phillies.
