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Obscure Records Part of the Game's Attraction.(baseball)
Nothing in baseball is too trivial for the hardcore fan
TRIVIA? SCRATCH THE WORD. When it comes to baseball it's disrespectful, disparaging and condescending. What's more, it's meaningless.
No record, feat or achievement of the treasured sport is insignificant or petty to a red-blooded, dedicated, genuine and knowledgeable fan. No facet or "factoid" of the game can be termed trivial in such a one's estimation.
Bob Costas, a superfan as well as renowned NBC broadcaster and author of the recent book Fair Ball, made the point most forcefully.
"Nothing about this great game is trivial," Costas declared. "There are simply some compelling bits of baseball knowledge that remain rather obscure."
Every event, play, deed or mishap in the game's history, whether celebrated by the multitude or neglected by all but the hoariest antiquarian, is embedded in a vast, all-encompassing web of cherished fact and legend.
It may not seem significant to the unenlightened that Don Baylor, current manager of the Chicago Cubs, when a player with the Baltimore Orioles on June 15, 1974 became the first major leaguer ever to be caught stealing twice in the same inning (though his double trespass has been repeated since by four envious players, all National Leaguers unlike Baylor who remains unmatched in the American League).
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Source: HighBeam Research, Obscure Records Part of the Game's Attraction.(baseball)