These are the five fastest players in Major League Baseball, based on Bill James' speed score, which takes into account four components: SB%, 3B%, frequency of SB attempts, and runs scored %.
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MLB’s Five Fastest Players
August 20th, 2010Comments Off »
Posted in BJ Upton, Carl Crawford, MLB, Rankings/List, tampa bay rays
Tags: account attempts Baseball Begin Bill James frequency league Major major league baseball nbsp score Slideshow speed
Wild Thing, I Think I Love You: Re-Casting ‘Major League’ With MLB Stars
August 19th, 2010If you're a real baseball fan, you've seen Major League. If you're a real Indians fan, you own the DVD, quote it excessively, and own a pair of Rick Vaughn-esque glasses.
It's an absolute classic full of whacky characters, great one-liners, and some of the best baseball action sequences Hollywood has ever staged. But one of the coolest things about it (and one of the reasons why it holds up so well more than 20 years later) is that life truly has imitated art.
It's not just that Cubs closer Mitch Williams changed his number to 99 and gained the nickname "Wild Thing" midway through the 1989 season, or that the Indians had become one of the best teams in the game within five years of the film's release.
Exaggerated and caricatured though they may be, the oddball protagonists in Major League are a lot like some of today's players.
In this slideshow are 12 current and recent baseball players and personalities who match up well with characters in the movie. The names on this list aren't all Indians, but some players from Cleveland won out over otherwise more deserving people from other franchises because of their team affiliations.
If you've never seen Major League, don't read any further—not just because there are spoilers, but because you are missing out. Run out to Blockbuster or download it from iTunes or something—just watch it, immediately. Seriously. Now.
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Posted in AL Central, Baseball, Humor, MLB, Rankings/List, Sports Movies, cleveland indians
Tags: action action sequences Baseball baseball action baseball fan baseball players blockbuster Cleveland DVD fan Hollywood Major League mdash Mitch Williams nbsp pair protagonists quote Rick Vaughn-esque Slideshow team affiliations Vaughn-esque wild thing
MLB’s Top 10 Flamethrowing Starters
August 18th, 2010Since the days of Walter Johnson, the fastball has been a pitch that, when mastered, can blow hitters away.
Many pitchers enjoy looking at the radar gun on their fastball, but here are the ones that really come in at high velocity.
These are the top 10 flamethrowers of 2010 so far ...
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Posted in MLB, Rankings/List, Washington Nationals
Tags: Begin fastball flamethrowers Gun high velocity pitch pitchers radar radar gun Slideshow velocity Walter Johnson
The Top Five Baseball Records That Will Never Be Broken
August 17th, 2010Since baseball was invented over 100 years ago there have been great players. Sometimes those great players achieved things that are unimaginable now a days. In this list I will say the top five unbreakable baseball records.
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Tags: 100 years Baseball baseball records Begin list nbsp Slideshow
NBA Power Rankings: Western Conference
August 17th, 2010The NBA has teams who are good and great. Some teams make the playoffs and some do not. Some people make it into the playoffs easily and some have to wait until the last game.
In this list I will rank the whole Western Conference.
Please comment with your opinion!
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Tags: Begin Game last game list NBA Opinion Slideshow Western Conference
