#BASEBALL

[muikkunuuskanen]

My favorite genre of pictures that i just discovered is baseball players in middle of doing their silly little high kicks to launch the ball at bastardly speeds

[tehtariks]

wholesome

[alotogifs]

Pay close attention during the tryout scene in the first episode of Amazon Prime’s series “A League of Their Own.”

Two women, one wearing a plaid jacket and the other in a red sweater that contrasts with her puffy white hair, are sitting in the stands and applauding while a group of brave women show off their pitching, batting and fielding skills in hopes of winning spots in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

The two spectators are smiling, as if they know something you don’t. They look like people you should recognize but can’t quite place.

Who are they? Why are they there? Too quickly, the camera moves on.

The woman on the left is Shirley Burkovich, who spent three seasons in the AAGPBL and died in March at 89. Beside her in the red sweater is 95-year-old Maybelle Blair of Sunset Beach. She’s one of the few surviving players from the AAGPBL, which was launched in 1943 to keep baseball alive while many major leaguers were serving in World War II. By every definition, Blair always has been in a league of her own.

[rinkrats]

Ratatouille (2021)

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[cybergoth-damsel]

Generally I feel nothing and know nothing of contemporary baseball. However, nothing can compete with the bliss of seeing a fictional character in one of those funny, archaic-looking uniforms. Truly a strange and wonderful cultural object. "Baseball episode" is the best episode trope there is.

Feel free to add your own favorite examples of this. I love to see funny baseball.

[425599167]

List of Star Trek species who know about baseball due to Captain Benjamin Sisko

Prophets: Sisko used baseball to explain the concept of linear time to them.

Ferengi: Quark learned about baseball to examine potential business opportunities.

Unidentified imagination aliens: One of them took the form of a baseball player based on Sisko’s interests.

Trill: Dax is an old friend of Sisko’s, they probably learned about it during life as Curzon, then definitely learned about it as Jadzia.

Cardassian: Possibly. I’m assuming that during the Dominion occupation of DS9, Gul Dukat at least took thirty seconds to learn what the baseball was for.

Vorta: If Gul Dukat bothered to learn, he probably rambled about it to Weyoun while drunk. If not, all Vorta field commanders are required to read Sisko’s psychographic profile. Baseball is in that thing somewhere.

Jem’Hadar: Guards were present during the exchange of an antique baseball card which Jake Sisko wanted to procure for his father.

Bajoran: Kira accompanied Sisko to a holosuite game, later learned to play when brought in by Sisko for his team.

Klingon: Through Worf, same circumstances as Kira.

Vulcan: Captain Solok and at least a team’s worth of his Vulcan crew learned the game in order to play against the Niners.

Changelings: Odo learned the rules in order to be the umpire, that knowledge would’ve been transferred to Laas and later the rest of the Founders when he returned to them. Every Founder now knows how to play baseball in excessive detail.

Because of Sisko, baseball knowledge extends across the galaxy and beyond the boundaries of time.

[low1life]

[dawningcrow]

[davidjohnlemahieu]

stats are so dumb. is he hot. does he have an enormous ass. are his eyes kind. where are the stats that measure what really matters.

[old-type-40]

One of the last things we saw of Kira in DS9 was her tossing Sisko's baseball. And it was very appropriate to see her doing that when we see her again for the first time in Lower Decks.

And over the years, people in the DS9 fandom have mused that baseballs took on religious significance to the Bajoran people because of Sisko. Personally, I don't think that would be the case. Bajorans may be very spiritual but they're not ignorant.

Instead, I'd like to think that the story of Sisko leaving his baseball in his office during the Dominion occupation as a promise that he would return spread across Bajor. And some Bajorans copied the replicator patterns for baseballs from DS9 and installed them on replicators on Bajor. And whenever a Bajoran wants to demonstrate their intent to return to some place they're leaving, they leave behind a baseball. So baseballs on Bajor have emotional but not religious significance.

[qualitystart]

Sandy Koufax on John Roseboro, Los Angeles Times, June 30 2002 / Koufax and Roseboro after their Game 1 win in the 1963 World Series / Tim McCarver on longtime batterymate Steve Carlton, mlb.com, August 24 2017 / diagram of a baseball diamond with the distance from the pitcher to the catcher labelled / Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright, who hold the MLB record for most starts as a battery / Pujols on Molina and Wainright, mlb.com, September 8 2022 / Buster Posey and Tim Lincecum after Lincecum’s first no-hitter / @franciscolindor​ via discord / diagram of signs by catcher Earl Smith, Popular Science, May 1920 / Logan Gilbert on Cal Raleigh, The Athletic, August 5 2021

[cryptbabe]

Thinking about... him <3

(and his... uhm... assets in these pants)

[jaubaius]

Awesome

[alotogifs]

I didn’t know this many girls played ball. How could you? There’s never been anything like this before.

A League of Their Own 1x01 - Batter Up

[tehtariks]

“This is the first time the entire broadcast team is all women.”

“That’s very important. Women have to continue to carve out their place. They’re already smarter than we are anyway.”

Happy International Women’s Day