Talk:Dead-ball era
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Just wondering what people think about this article. I wrote it myself and I'm still fairly new at this, so any comments or editing would be appreciated. --Woohookitty 02:49, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
In the passage During the dead-ball era, baseball was much more of a strategic, station-to-station game. It relied much more on stolen bases, hit and run plays and similar strategies than on home runs. It was basically a speed game, what would be referred to now as "small ball."
This is the opposite of how I understand the term "station-to-station" in modern parlance. I thought playing station-to-station was trying to get guys on base and wait around for a home run or a string of hits -- the opposite of small ball. Nowadays the cliche is that the AL tends toward a more station-to-station style, while the NL tends toward small ball. --65.78.28.86 02:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Agreed. In fact, I came to the discussion page to make that very point :) Varitek 20:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Yep, somebody should change that already.
[edit] Pitcher's Mound
I don't have a source for this, but someone may. I've always thought that the pitcher's mound was higher during this era, and when it was lowered that was one of the factors for the end of the era. Tithonfury 23:47, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Intentional walk
The article says " The intentional walk was also banned‚". I never knew it was banned. The article Base on balls says nothing about intentional walks ever having been banned and, in fact, reads as if they are perfectly legal. I know only a little about baseball history. Can someone clarify this apparent inconsistency? --Richard (talk) 16:36, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
