Old School MLB Top Ten

[qtlaw]

I’m THAT guy, but I still enjoy sitting in backyard reading paper and perusing the MLB top ten leaders. I know it’s available online but I still enjoy it in print better.

 

[maumann]

Used to love the Sunday AP batting and pitching tables. Outside of The Sporting News, the only way to see the league averages at a glance.

 

[FileNotFound]

There was a time when, thanks to Sunday averages and the Top 10, I could tell you within +/- 5 pts the batting average of any major league player at any given moment. Oh, to be 14 and have that much space available in my brain again.

 

[wicked]

I still remember when the local paper would run the stats of all the minor leaguers from the area in its Sunday baseball package.

 

[playthrough]

There was a time when, thanks to Sunday averages and the Top 10, I could tell you within +/- 5 pts the batting average of any major league player at any given moment. Oh, to be 14 and have that much space available in my brain again.

I was the same way. Back when stolen bases mattered, too.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I still remember when the local paper would run the stats of all the minor leaguers from the area in its Sunday baseball package.

When I worked for the Gannett paper, we used to run a page each Sunday on local players who were either in the minors and the handful of locals who were in the majors.

It was a pain in the ass because whoever designed it had to look up the stats for roughly a dozen players and type them in, and our Internet service was slow.

It was a breeze to do the MLB Sunday page, yusually. Pop in the hitting and pitching stats, hit the code string, and pop it on the page. Two of the six columns were filled in five minutes. If there was room for the gamers and roundup elsewhere, run an early feature or two and the page was done in less than an hour.

 

[Slacker]

I was the same way. Back when stolen bases mattered, too.

And RBIs, dammit!


#WARisHell

 

[swingline]

I miss Jason Stark’s column in the Philly (?) paper that we used to use for some of our notes package on Sunday. Simply hilarious.

Ran a horse mugshot once. I was very proud of myself for that.

 

[justgladtobehere]

The Gammons Notes stuff across from a full page of stats was awesome for a young baseball fan