
Effectively Wild Episode 1970: Season Preview Series: Mariners and White Sox
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Beginning of a New Year's Resolution
Charlie Finley requested and received permission from baseball commissioner Boikun to use bases painted a bright gold on a one-game trial basis. A's pitcher Jim Mudcat Grant was tapped to sing the national anthem reportedly the first active player to do so Finley evidently liked the experiment enough that he suggested colored bases as a permanent rule change at the 1970 winter meetings in December this suggestion along with a proposal to add a 20 second pitch clock was ultimately rejected by the playing rules committee. Feegan James thanks as always I thought to set the end with me doing a prediction or is that something that's yeah we've scrapped it but if you've got one whole student ready to go I don't want
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