Baseball In 1927

A glimpse of what the game was like

Baseball In 1927

I came across this somewhat random article in the New York Daily News from June 9, 1927. It comes from page 32 — and I think it gives a pretty good feeling of what thought around baseball was like at the time:

Now, I know that all the sabermetricans are gritting their teeth and putting their hands over their eyes in frustration at reading this. The bunt, of course, is the play that so many of the statistically minded would like to remove.

Read on:

Of course, the great irony here is that Paul Gallico forgets to tell us that the Yankees happened to win this particular game against the White Sox 12-11, after Tony Lazzeri hit 3 home runs:

And it’s pretty hard to hit a home run when you’re up there bunting, no matter how scientific it is.

But, of course, this was the best part of the article:

I wonder what happened to those kids.