Frank Boal
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then in the midst of his career, when they realized, oh, my God, this guy can hit the ball over the wall and the fans like it, they juice the baseball.
It's basically, my assumption is it's largely the baseball we use today.
But before Babe Ruth, it was the dead ball era where they, like the ball would come in from foul territory, they'd put it back into use.
It got in the mud, no problem, throw it back in there.
Fan through it back to the field.
Nowadays, you know, oh, it skipped on its way to the plate.
Well, throw that out.
Send that over to the batting point.
We couldn't possibly pitch that thing again.
Give me a new fresh, white, pristine baseball to send back out there.
And then half the time, pitchers will be like,
I'm not feeling it with this one.
Can I get a new one?
Give me another one.
Okay, throw that one out.
Send that one to the trash.
We can't have it.