The Internet occasionally reminds me of how different life is because of it.
I noted on Facebook that, from a statistical perspective, what makes baseball such an amazing sport is that you can watch it your entire life and still see, on a daily basis, something you’ve never seen before. (It’s a truism, I know, but it has the benefit of actually being true.) In this case, the something in question was watching the wonderfully named Angel Pagan hit an inside-the-park home run and initiate a triple play in the same game. John Emerson responded with some humbug about it not being an inside-the-park grand slam, which made me remember that I had seen an inside-the-park grand slam at some time in the remote past.
I remember being six or seven years old and watching the Mets play the Cardinals in an afternoon game at Shea Stadium, and thanks to the miracle of the Internet, I can definitively say that at approximately 4:30 p.m. on 9 June 1985, I watched Terry Pendleton hit an inside-the-park grand slam off Joe Sambito in a game the Cardinals would go on to win handily. The fact that I can verify vague memories of events that occurred twenty-five years ago astounds me in a way I sometimes forget the Internet is capable of doing.
This realization is obviously not of world-historical importance, merely a reminder that this thing whose existence we take for granted daily represents a fundamentally weird complement to human memory. The fact that at some point in the future I can know who I rode in an elevator with on 28 December 2005 is less weird because I chose to write about riding in an elevator with Grimace. That I can access detailed information about events I have no right remembering in detail is another matter entirely.
I saw an inside the park grand slam back in the early 90s — I guess it was the late 80s — Junior Felix for the Blue Jays at Fenway. A list through 1999 is given at
Such a tease!
Well the link doesn’t seem to have made it through let’s try again
http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?3641-Inside-The-Park-Grand-Slams
That would have helped with my sleuthing. Would that the Internets could allow commenters to comment on my post before I’ve written it!
Baseball is a statisticians wet dream. On September 25, 1975, I saw a major league record set at Candlestick Park in a double header between the Giants and the Astros: most double plays by both teams in both games of a doubleheader. The number was 8.
Make that September 25, 1978.
I was about to say “Links of GTFO!” but I see you’ve self-corrected.
The fact that I can, at a whim, go to a magic box in my room and figure out what Minnesota Governor appointed Justice William B. Mitchell to the Supreme Court (Pillsbury, as it happens), and then write about it in a format that literally anyone else with said magic box in their room can read — the internet is the closest thing to pure science fiction that’s been invented in my lifetime. Thank you, Vice President Gore. Thank you.
That’s the sort of experience that’s been routinized, though: as bloggers, we assume that these words we write will be read by other sentient beings … but being able to verify a dim memory of an event witnessed as a child a quarter century past? That’s just weird.
Speaking of those mid-to-late 1980′s Mets teams, I never knew that Gary Carter was so despised until I read “The Bad Guys Won,” a book about the 1986 World Series team. I always wanted to play catcher and Carter was a hero of mine.
On the other hand, Bob Ojeda is awesome.
however, also thanks to the internet, it turns out that things that we think have never happened before in a baseball game actually have.
i learned this in an article in either the ny times or the wsj a few weeks back where some stat head was commenting on how he had seen a game end on a triple play and assumed that had never happened before but then by searching – well, i don’t recall, probably project retrosheet or something – he discovered that somewhere back in the ’20s, a game had ended on a triple play.
the broader point of the article was that with our ability to search, it’s less and less likely that we are actually seeing something unique when we think we are.
and yes, there is nothing like the thrill of looking up the box score of a game you remember (in my case) from 49 years ago, my first time at yankee stadium.
Thanks to Google, I no longer need to remember anything for myself. It does to writing what writing did to brute-force memorization.
All I can say, is that Terry Pendelton was frickin’ awesome.
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