tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985668569918053928.post258190446262303847..comments2024-01-24T05:19:09.805-06:00Comments on This Game Of Games: Ferdinand Garesche's Unassisted Triple PlayJeffrey Kittelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367989375750209078noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985668569918053928.post-505906175775049652008-08-26T14:45:00.000-05:002008-08-26T14:45:00.000-05:00It was certainly the perfect way to get an unassis...It was certainly the perfect way to get an unassisted triple play. But I think the writer was specifically talking about the nature of base running then as compared to "now." He saw the play as a result of the runners constantly being on the move, running on every pitch, and therefore creating the environment in which the play could be made. What he leaves unsaid is that that environment no longer existed in the "modern" game. I'm not nearly smart enough to be able to compare base running in 1860 to base running in 1895 so I'm literally pulling Game of Inches off the shelf right now.<BR/><BR/>While Morris doesn't really talk about base running in general, he does cover the evolution of taking a lead off the base and the pick-off move. He quotes Connie Mack in 1905 talking about how taking a big lead was not a smart play because of the possibility of a pick-off. So maybe it's the development of the pick-off and the effect it had in curbing a more cavalier style of base running that the writer is talking about. It's not station to station baseball but a more "scientific" approach to base running then the put the ball in play and run like heck.Jeffrey Kittelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02367989375750209078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985668569918053928.post-69511909860878721642008-08-25T15:27:00.000-05:002008-08-25T15:27:00.000-05:00What is interesting about that is that the play as...What is interesting about that is that the play as described is the same as a modern unassisted triple play, but the writer thinks it "would now [1895] be almost impossible". Why is that? Or is this simply the observation that the play is extremely rare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com