Talk:Dead-ball era
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Just wondering what people think about this article. I wrote it myself and I'm still fairly new at this, so any comments or editing would be appreciated. --Woohookitty 02:49, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
In the passage During the dead-ball era, baseball was much more of a strategic, station-to-station game. It relied much more on stolen bases, hit and run plays and similar strategies than on home runs. It was basically a speed game, what would be referred to now as "small ball."
This is the opposite of how I understand the term "station-to-station" in modern parlance. I thought playing station-to-station was trying to get guys on base and wait around for a home run or a string of hits -- the opposite of small ball. Nowadays the cliche is that the AL tends toward a more station-to-station style, while the NL tends toward small ball. --65.78.28.86 02:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Agreed. In fact, I came to the discussion page to make that very point :) Varitek 20:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Yep, somebody should change that already.
