You may have noticed a trend of major-league players using brightly colored bat grips in recent seasons. Bats that were once adorned only by pine tar buildup and cleat marks were now wrapped with a ...
Yes, this commercial is about a year old and was designed to get people excited about a Mariners team that would win an AL-worst 61 games in 2008. Still, watching it again raised my apartment's ...
A GRIP ON SPORTS • Time begins today. It’s baseball’s Opening Day. (Or opening day if you aren’t a believer.) From this day forward, until the buds just forming on the trees have become overwhelming ...
The longest-lasting relationship in baseball is between the pitcher and the baseball. From Little League to retirement, most Major League pitchers have a baseball as an extension of his body. He doesn ...
It’s a rule casually broken hundreds of times a day by players on every team in baseball. Umpires will not enforce it unless asked to, and even then they would rather leave well enough alone. “The ...
The best weapon in a pitcher's arsenal is the changeup. No doubt "fad" pitches—in Roger Clemens' day, it was the split-finger fastball; Mariano Rivera made the cutter famous—have revitalized careers ...
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated which ball the Southern League used in phase one of testing. It used a mudded ball, not one with a gripping agent early this season.
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