The Bat versus The Ball
I was watching the highlights of the Brewers - Blue Jays game:
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eqy3IGxhGs
In the 4th inning the Blue Jays first baseman, Vladimir Guerrero lost his bat which ended up stuck in the netting above the visitors dugout:
They eventually got out a pole with a loop on it and freed the bat:
Vladimir was happy to get it back:
This of course triggered a memory of a long ago Braves home game in the mid-1960s. I was a guest of our Fox Point neighbors, The Nelsons. They had season tickets for box seats a few rows behind home plate which was a first for me. The strange thing was that my classmate, Jerry Nelson would rather have had seats in the upper grandstand of Milwaukee County Stadium ! We did walk up there for a while.
The thing I remember was that at some point a foul ball was hit with so much spin or ? that it got stuck in the backstop (which I remember as chain link fencing not the nylon netting used today). And after a while a guy climbed the fencing and was hitting the ball with a stick - I don't remember what happened, not sure if he got it out or not, very distracting having a guy hanging on trying to get a ball.
Anyway whether 20th or 21st century, there is a good reason for the netting !
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eqy3IGxhGs
In the 4th inning the Blue Jays first baseman, Vladimir Guerrero lost his bat which ended up stuck in the netting above the visitors dugout:
They eventually got out a pole with a loop on it and freed the bat:
Vladimir was happy to get it back:
This of course triggered a memory of a long ago Braves home game in the mid-1960s. I was a guest of our Fox Point neighbors, The Nelsons. They had season tickets for box seats a few rows behind home plate which was a first for me. The strange thing was that my classmate, Jerry Nelson would rather have had seats in the upper grandstand of Milwaukee County Stadium ! We did walk up there for a while.
The thing I remember was that at some point a foul ball was hit with so much spin or ? that it got stuck in the backstop (which I remember as chain link fencing not the nylon netting used today). And after a while a guy climbed the fencing and was hitting the ball with a stick - I don't remember what happened, not sure if he got it out or not, very distracting having a guy hanging on trying to get a ball.
Anyway whether 20th or 21st century, there is a good reason for the netting !
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
