Steve Jaeger once again validates why baseball will always reign supreme.
- Willie Mays 1,000 Watt smile
- The 2011 World Series
- Tommy John Surgery
- Watching Ron Washington hopping around in the dugout is a hell of a lot more fun than watching some guy with a clipboard in a headset scream at a guy up in a booth somewhere.
- Albert Pujols
- One of these days Teddy will win, unlike the Cubs
- Roberto Clemente
- They have great stuff at minor league baseball games like bat races. At minor league football games, oh wait there is no minor league football.
- They have Arena Football which they play after they’ve cleaned up from the tractor pull.
- The Hot Stove League
- Stephen Strasburg
- In football you have nicknames like The Steel Curtain and The Orange Crush. In baseball you have the Daffiness Boys and the Idiots.
- The Bad News Bears (the original, not the crappy remake)
- Red Barber, Mel Allen, Russ Hodges, Vin Sculley, Bob Prince, Ernie Harwell, Jack Brickhouse, Bob Wolff, Dizzy Dean, Gordon McLendon, Bob Prince, Chuck Thompson, Phil Rizzuto, Jon Miller, Joe Nuxhall, Harry and Skip Caray, Bob Euker
- You can still get a seat at the ballpark for $5
- Cool Papa Bell
- Paul Simon never would have written Mrs. Robinson.
- Fans not required to travel cross country to watch championship game
- Walk up music
- The hot foot
- The Natural vs. Leatherheads, that about says it all.
- Bob Feller
- Gives George Will and I something to talk about
- Jackie Robinson
- The moment when a game is on the line and a pitcher strikes out a batter to end the inning and then walks off the field like nothing has happened while everyone else is going crazy
—Photo stidlundphotos/Flickr
About Steve Jaeger
Eric – as a native New Yorker who saw his first baseball game at the Polo Grounds, first football game at Yankee Stadium and this other two minor sports you mentioned at the old Madison Square Garden, I know from life, Baseball is life, the other stuff is just filler for the other few months of the year…
Okay, so baseball is your life. Got it.
Which explains why you’re single. . .jk.
I stopped reading when at position 11 you have Stephen Strasburg.. Huh?? What does that even mean? The guy hasnt pitched 100 innings in the pros and he’s on this list. Sorry, but this list only strengthens most people’s opinion that baseball is nothing compared to football.
I was at Strasburg’s first game against the Pirates. I’ve been following baseball for more than fifty years and I’ve never been to a game that was so electric. The kid is special, you obviously don’t know enough about the game to comment. Either that or you’re from Philadelphia…
Nobody knows if the kid is special or not anymore. After Tommy just a few starts he was forced to have Tommy John surgery. Sadly, he’s far more likely to throw his arm out than fulfill the unrealistic expectations that were set for him when he was called up from the minors.
Most pitchers who come back from TJ surgery are stronger than before. Strasburg made four or five starts last September when he came back up and had a sub 2.00 ERA and his average fastball was 98 mph. He’ll be fine
I hope it works out for him but I haven’t heard of any kids that young needed TJ surgery. I’m not sure if this isn’t uncharted waters.