Now in its 20th year, the Bay Area Vintage Base Ball League is thriving: ‘It’s 20% Renaissance fair, 80% Little League’
Most new players found the league by accident. They were just walking through Golden Gate Park when they saw something they ...
League expanded from two teams in 2006 to 10 teams today
Most new players found the league by accident. They were just walking through Golden Gate Park when they saw something they ...
Vallejo Times Herald6d
Now in its 20th year, the Bay Area Vintage Base Ball League is thriving: ‘It’s 20% Renaissance fair, 80% Little League’
When Carl Gibbs finishes his regular work week as a criminal investigator for death penalty cases, the 69-year-old puts on his black suit ... Gibbs isn’t an umpire, but a “sir,” the original ...
ESPN3d
MLB teams won 52.2% of ABS challenges during robot umpire test
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.
The Washington Post4d
Teams successful on 52.2% of ball/strike challenges during spring training robot umpire test
NEW YORK — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers. Major League Baseball ...
New York Magazine3d
Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
Thus in the 2010s, it became standard for catchers to “frame ... and tennis has followed suit on line calls, retaining just a chair umpire. Bennis officials aren’t entwined in the aesthetics ...
Yardbarker5d
Phillies Star Catcher Reveals Complicated Thoughts On Robot Umpires
One of which was Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto, who had some mixed feelings about the robot umpires. "I like it as a hitter," said Realmuto. "I don't really like it as a catcher as much ...
New York Magazine on MSN3dOpinion
Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the ...
The New York Times6d
What we learned from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test: Players, managers, execs weigh in
We’ve spent the past five weeks watching them pop out of hiding, every time a catcher, hitter or pitcher ... the coaches like, the umpires like and the fans like.” So this was the logical ...