For as much credit as baseball gets for being “timeless” – the rare sport where you can make legitimate comparisons across different eras – it sure has changed a lot since I was a boy during the `70s and `80s. Some of these changes I’m cool with; some I am very get-off-my-lawny about. Below is my brief list of things I miss about the way things used to be.
The hard grounder back through the box
I’m fine with the shift; no, really! And the folks who complain about the shift, maybe even talk about banning the shift, are very dumb and wrong.