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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 14h

Daisy looks like she can handle you

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 15h

Just want to ask, Willie: how does a pitched ball hit the bat BEFORE it hits the batter's fingers? I can't remember ever calling a similar play anything other than a hit-by-pitch. The one time I refused to award a batter first base, it turned out he had a fractured finger that ended his career.

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 15h

There's a book about something like that www.amazon.com/Iowa-Basebal...

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 16h

22 to 1, sure, but did the game last 5 hours? Did it take 15 pitchers to conclude? Did one of the starting pitchers strike out 13, then get taken out after the 6th before the "next game" even started, and wind up on the losing side - SEVEN pitchers later?

Baseball: it's old, but it never gets old⚾

John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 21h

On October 10 (yesterday) in 1845, was played the first baseball game that would hit the newspapers. Brooklyn beats NY, 22-1. Reported three days later, in True Sun, October 13, 1845.

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 17h

Arlo Guthrie recorded "City of New Orleans" and made it a hit, but it will always be a Steve Goodman tune.

Goodman was the brilliant, mesmerizing composer and performer of the anthem the Cubs play over the PA system at Wrigley at the end of every Cubs victory, "Go Cubs, Go!" Goodman lives! ❤️🎸

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 17h

Also, how does it stay balanced on his head like that when it's clearly off-kilter? Did he glue it to his hair?

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 17h

There was nothing contrived about her, she just naturally radiated a kind of goofy soulfulness that few actors do. Farewell, and thank you Spirit of Lorenzo ❤️

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 17h

One of my favorite scenes ever - check out the dude in the trenchcoat, using his gun to reposition his hat, scratch his shoulder, point straight at his throat, and wave it around carelessly while talking to his colleagues.

Great scenes in bad cinema 💕

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 18h

From the art studio of the great Ann Telnaes:

open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Shot in the head with pepper spray

This is Trump's America

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 18h

Did you design either of those logos, Todd? They're both pretty sweet. You would have been what, 13 in 1977? but I have to ask.

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 19h

I have zero quarrel with umpires getting paid to pee, Michael!

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for the rec, Luke!

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23h

Baseball doesn't ask much of us, but it demands our attention and a strong bladder

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23h

Rockford is undergoing a transformation from a once-flourishing, economically depressed factory town to a hub for international amateur sports, Luke, and IWBC's girls and women's baseball museum and activities center will be a crown jewel in the expanding array of sports facilities and fields there.

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Glad we can chuckle about it together rather than wind up losing our tempers and insulting each other just because we disagree, Willie. Like I said, ain't baseball grand?

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Lol Willie, and after several close looks at it, I thought they got it right! Ain't baseball grand?

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Very long and fruitful! He reportedly had the biggest hands in baseball and could easily hold five baseballs in one hand! He had a post-baseball career in local politics in his adopted hometown of Rockford, Illinois, where his family still lives. (He's second from the right in this photo)

A photo of four baseball players in uniform leaning back against a dugout with their arms crossed. That's my great-uncle Jim McLaughlin, second from the right, in his Sacramento Solons uniform. Who his teammates are, I may never know - but check out those anklet sanis! Love the look, very distinctive.

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Fifteen innings with no bathroom breaks, no resting in the dugout between half-innings, no timeouts for coffee, and no cheers for him as he walked off the field; but crew chief Alan Porter gets my vote for Man of The Hour - of FIVE hours! - for his superlative job behind the plate in Seattle tonight

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Washington Post, move over.

Kay, Queen [of plan] B @kaytheory.bsky.social · 1d

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

My great-uncle Jim McLaughlin, a Sacramento Solon for most of his pro career, played one game for the Browns on April 15, 1932. Unlike Moonlight Graham, he DID get to bat: he grounded into a fielder's choice that scored Goose Goslin from third, so his lifetime BA is .000 - but he got the RBI!