Talk:Baseball field
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The following comments were left by the assessors: (edit ° history ° watch ° refresh) Good page It's inacurate to say, "In the middle of the square is a low artificial hill called the pitcher's mound." The mound is not in the center. It is closer to the home plate. This wording causes confusion, and many aritechs mistakenly put mounds in the center of the square. TroyTroyFrazier (talk) 19:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC) |
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[edit] Discussion on merge
- Merge It is fruitless task to produce an article (home plate) that is already wholly described in a more aptly written article (baseball field). The 'home plate' article should be deleted/merged. Salluste 06:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- Merge Unless there are also separate articles about first, second and third bases. While you're at it, I think there is also a separate article about the pitcher's mound, although it at least has some extra detail. Wahkeenah 14:09, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Although there is as yet no information on the black part of home. Tahrlis 20:36, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Diamond
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_%28disambiguation%29 "diamond" refers only to the infield. This causes some confusion. User:203.205.193.51 07:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- So, fix it already. Wahkeenah 12:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bases
someone should add a popular cuture ref to the bases >--> make out, hold hands ...
- There is a separate article on the subject: Baseball metaphors for sex. Wahkeenah 10:08, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 1st Base
Where is it? I see second, third, and home, but no first. megarockman 14:44, 23 April 2007 (CDT)
- It's there. Wahkeenah 20:40, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Organization of base-specific sections
The appearance of the foul pole section between third base and home seems a bit odd. And as someone pointed out, a separate section for first base is conspicuously absent.
I would suggest moving the foul pole section after home plate, adding a first base section, and a little bit more base-specific information to their respective sections. I'll happily implement these changes if others agree on these points.
- Kchu1701 21:56, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Outfield Wall
Currently theis section states that "Fenway Parks' Green Monster is the tallest of these walls at 37ft. Most of the walls are padded after a Major League player seriously hurt himself in the 1975 World Series when he crashed into the wall." It makes it sound as if Fred Lynn (that's the player referred to) crashed into the Green Monster back in 1975; Lynn hurt himself crashing into the center field wall, not the left-field monster. 141.154.209.175 13:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
- You're right, and it should be re-worded for clarity. It might be worth bringing up Coco Crisp's final out on Sunday night, in which he banged into part of the wall that is NOT padded. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 60'6"
"not due to a clerical or surveying error as popular myth has it, but purposely"...please provide a citation that this is a myth. Kingturtle (talk) 21:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
- It's discussed in detail in Glory Fades Away, by Jerry Lansch. The last time the pitcher's box was defined, in 1887, its front line was 50 feet from the plate, and the back line was 55 1/2 feet from the plate, and the pitcher had to keep his foot on the back line during delivery. In 1893 they added exactly 5 feet to that back line and took away the rest of the box since it was no longer needed. I thought the article already explained that. Maybe someone rubbed it out or distorted it. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 22:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, it is there. I just found it. But the amount of text between "not due to a clerical or surveying error as popular myth has it, but purposely (as noted below)" and "Exactly 5 feet was added" is over 100 lines. That is really BELOW! Can we put the answer closer to the question? Kingturtle (talk) 22:50, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
- I'll see what I can do. Many editors have had their mitts (and gloves) in this article since I wrote that text. And I should also reference it better than I did. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 00:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, it is there. I just found it. But the amount of text between "not due to a clerical or surveying error as popular myth has it, but purposely (as noted below)" and "Exactly 5 feet was added" is over 100 lines. That is really BELOW! Can we put the answer closer to the question? Kingturtle (talk) 22:50, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Walls
The statement "Most of the walls are padded after a Major League player (Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox) seriously hurt himself in the 1975 World Series when he crashed into the wall" is misleading for two reasons. One, walls were being padded well before Lynn's incident. Two, the wall was already padded when he hit it, it just was insufficiently padded. His injury prompted fixing that problem. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 19:53, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Photos
Is it really necessary to have two pictures of Fenway? and both of the Green Monster (a structure not at all common to most baseball fields)? Also are there any stats to back up claims of average MLB distances to the outfield wall? Notice the references re just commercial sites.(Jschager (talk) 00:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC))
- Regarding "claims of average MLB distances", what are you referring to, specifically? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 01:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
