pete@umcp-cs.UUCP (Pete Cottrell) (11/26/85)
About 3 weeks ago, I posted several articles. One was a lengthy discussion of the pending baseball meetings (held on Nov 7-8) in which the long-range planning committee met with the representatives of the 12 cities hoping to be included in the possible future expansion. In particular, my article detailed some of the actions taken by the D.C. Baseball Commission over the last several months. Another article was a mish-mash of thoughts, including a mild flame, and ended with 2 trivia questions. I thought these would have generated some sort of response, but I have seen nothing. I know they were seen locally, but I am now wondering if they ever made their way around the net. Did you just miss them, or were they just that boring? I hope the former. If you saw them, or didn't see them, let me know (by mail, please; let's not clog the net). Now for a question which hopefully some Red Sox fan can answer: last year Jim Rice set a major league record by grounding into 36 (I think) DPs. This year, a professor of mine and I were keeping track of his pace as best we could thru reports in the paper. We often saw these blurbs, because Rice was on another record tear, with something like the mid 20's by the All-Star break (there was a joke about how Rice had caused the phone company to change the area code of Fenway to 643). There was even an episode where Oil Can Boyd lost a close game in which his teammates hit into about 4 DPs; afterwards, he grumbled about not getting any support from his team. From what I remember, Rice (I am not sure if he had contributed any of the DPs) came over to Boyd and told him to shut up, at which point a shoving match ensued. Boyd left the club for about 2 days and was fined about $1,500. Anyone know some better details? Then, we saw no more updates; I know he was injured a lot late in the season and sat out some games, so maybe this accounts for no more DPs. Does anyone know how many he ended up with? Did he break his own record? It sure seemed like a cinch he would. Any info would be appreciated. ** Baseball In '87 ** -- Call-Me: Pete Cottrell, Univ. of Md. Comp. Sci. Dept. UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!pete CSNet: pete@umcp-cs ARPA: pete@mimsy.umd.edu