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Topic: Baseline (baseball)

In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

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	ims-scene
		By walking the baselines, stepping on the glowing grass, brushing the dust-ridden dirt off of their shoes, they will be brought back in time to when they were young children.
		Baseball has marked the time.” What Mann is saying is that through all of the ups and downs that the country of America has encountered throughout time, there was one thing that held this country together.
		In essence, baseball is a permanent memory marker; “it reminds us of all that once was good and it could be good again.” Baseball is a sport and a continuing memory that everyone can turn to when they want to find good in this country as well as good in their hearts.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/ims/ims-scene.htm (874 words)

	Vintage Base Ball in Texas, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseball legend has Abner Doubleday creating the game of baseball on a summer afternoon in 1839 in Cooperstown, on the shore of the Otsego Lake in up-state New York.
		This led to occasional variations in the length of the baseline, depending on the length of the 'pace'.
		This was the first attempt by the players of professional baseball to organize against the operations of team owners.
	home.comcast.net /~cartwrightsrules1845/wsb/html/view.cgi-html2.html--SiteID-325579.html (2296 words)

	eteamz: Out of Baseline? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseline is straight line from where runner is to the base, at the point in time a tag attempt can be made).
		Generally speaking, a runner is usually only out for being out of the baseline if the ball is BETWEEN the runner and the base to which he is heading.
		I had an "out of baseline" call in a recent informal fall LL game between teams from two different leagues (one man crew) that invloves the issue of the runner establishing his own baseline, and at what point is the baseline established for the purposes of the rule.
	eteamz.active.com /baseball/boards/obrrules/message.cfm?id=1126221 (1014 words)

	Baseball Prospectus - Catching Up With The General: A Postscript
		The effect of this choice is that the baseline for comparison varies somewhat year to year, depending on the turnover rate (and mix of playing time, even if there is no turnover) in backup catchers.
		Even allowing that there is some variance in the baseline of comparison (the composition of the rest of the catching staff), there was essentially zero evidence for any kind of trend for either good catchers to stay good (the Tony Gwynn case) or for bad players to remain awful (the Mendoza case).
		While the position of catcher is still physically demanding, and may indeed be a critically important defensive position, we'll need to look elsewhere to assess the full magnitude of his contribution.
	www.baseballprospectus.com /article.php?articleid=436&mode=print&nocache=1109969280 (1428 words)

	Baseline Road Definition / Baseline Road Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseline Road is a road in Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaCanada is the second largest and the northernmost country in the world, occupying most of the North American land mass.
		Currently, Baseline is a major east-west street, and in the late 90's it became so busy that Hunt Club Road had to be extended west of Rideau River to alleviate pressure.
		Baseline Road is the dividing line in the minds of the residents.
	www.elresearch.com /Baseline_Road (353 words)

	Baseline: Boston Red Sox: Backstop Your Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseball is a business where employee performance can be measured down to every swing, step or throw taken.
		Baselines are easy to establish, not just in chalk, but on every facet of the athlete's physical characteristics, such as height, weight and medical condition, to minutely defined activities, including arm strength, hitting discipline and mental errors.
		Baseball is a sport already brimming with statistics, yet Sabermetrics—the term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research, a community of baseball enthusiasts—is a departure from traditional player metrics such as runs batted in (RBI) and batting average.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdbln/is_200405/ai_ziff126813 (1408 words)

	Archives
		Baselines are crucial for an adequate interpretation of Win Shares, as explained in the Loss Shares article.
		This baseline is the number of Win Shares an individual player would produce if he were an average player (batting, fielding and pitching), given his playing time.
		This average baseline, by the way, is certainly not the most appropriate baseline to use for player comparison -- a replacement level baseline is much better.
	www.baseballgraphs.com /blog/archives.php?id=A2003121 (1636 words)

	Tee Ball® Baseball Playing Rules
		1.09 -- A foul strike arc shall be made from baseline to baseline in front of home plate on a ten foot radius from the back point of home plate.
		Some forward or backward movement of the back foot will be ignored by the umpires if in their judgment the batter was not attempting to deceive the defensive team.
		It is suggested that in local league play the infield not be allowed to come in any closer than 35' from home plate when the younger and/or immature batters are batting.
	www.geocities.com /teeballbaseball/play.htm (2449 words)

	devilsbaseball
		While the selection process for any endeavor always entails a great deal of subjectivity, the NHS Baseball Coaching Staff strives to make the process as objective and fair as possible.
		Coach Parent has been a social studies teacher at NHS since 1995, and he is the Offensive Coordinator for the varsity football team.
		Boudway was instrumental in the design of NHS’ new state-of-the-art athletic facilities, which include not only the Kearney Field, home to Blue Devils Baseball, but a new gymnasium, aerobics room, six lane all-weather track, athletic stadium, and renovated fitness center and locker rooms.
	www.nps.northampton.ma.us /nhhs/devilsbaseball.htm (1099 words)

	The SillyBall: the Juiced Baseball
		Consider what has to be involved in baseball as a whole increasing its run-production rate by about fifteen percent from one season to another (and not for one freak year, but for a steadily maintained basis).
		There is a heck of a lot of baseball history encapsulated in that graph, and it would be nice to include the full discussion of all of it, but that would be too lengthy a digression for here.
		In this age, baseball has been losing fans--especially the young fans crucial to the future of the game--at an increasing pace that is becoming alarming.
	highboskage.com /juiced-ball.shtml (4929 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Henry-Steinbrenner Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		More often than not, $50 million, on average, will not allow a major league baseball franchise to field a highly competitive team.
		But one team can and is spending $150 million incremental, and at some point 29 owners and their players say to themselves, "We can't have one team that can spend $10 above the baseline for every incremental dollar spent by an average team." One thing is certain the status quo will not be preserved.
		There must be a way to cap what a team can spend without hurting player compensation in toto without taking away from the players what they have rightfully earned in the past through negotiation and in creating tremendous value.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2004/02/18/henry_steinbrenner_texts?mode=PF (470 words)

	Beanbag Chairs Recalled by Baseline Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseline Design is aware of three incidents in which the chairs were unzipped freely.
		Two of the incidents involved young children who were able to open the beanbag chair zippers and handle the small polystyrene beads, including one child who received medical attention after inhaling the beads.
		Baseline Design is cooperating with the CPSC and providing replacement beanbag chairs to consumers if the zippers can be opened freely.
	www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/prerel/prhtml03/03076.html (323 words)

	The Fourth Outfielder Baseball Blog: Is This A Dead Horse?
		An account of baseball in general and the Los Angeles Dodgers in particular.
		For Kent, figuring $4m for an average player and $2m per extra win, his baseline is $8m, meaning he has to contribute 2.5 runs above average on defense to be worth the full $8.5m.
		For Valentin, since he'll sit a quarter of the time, his baseline is ($4m)3/4 + (-.5)3/4*$2m, which equals $2.25m, meaning he'll need to contribute 6 defensive runs above average to be worth the full $3.5m.
	fourthoutfielder.blogspot.com /2005/03/is-this-dead-horse.html (1165 words)

	Netscape Search Category - Equipment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseball Palace Baseball and softball bats and equipment from Louisville Slugger, Easton, Worth, Wilson and Rawlings.
		Baseball Warehouse Offers baseball bats, gloves, batting gloves and shoes, baseballs, shoes, helmets, hitting and pitching machines, batting cages, hitting nets, uniforms from Easton, Rawlings, Louisville Slugger, Wilson and JUGS.
		Baseline Sports Offers baseball and softball equipment, licensed apparel and custom uniforms, gloves and wooden bats.
	h-207-200-81-7.netscape.com /Shopping/Sports/Baseball/Equipment (793 words)

	Baseball Prospectus \| Statistics
		The Baseline forecast, although it does not appear here, is a crucial intermediate step in creating a player's forecast.
		The Baseline forecast is also significant in that it attempts to remove luck from a forecast line.
		In addition, the Baseline corrects for large disparities between a pitcher's ERA and his PERA, and an unusually high or low hit rate on balls in play, which are highly subject to luck.
	www.baseballprospectus.com /glossary/index.php?mode=viewstat&stat=23 (195 words)

	Baseline-WBA Stars Exhibition Team starts slow, bows to Shorter College 89-80 - OurSports Central
		Baseline's Joe Montgomery drilled 3 treys in the rally.
		On the ensuing inbounds, Baseline's Jason Shaw (191-G, college: Alabama St.) stole the ball just past half court, but his pass to Bobby Brown (201-F-79, college: Kennesaw St.) (201-F-79, college: Kennesaw St.) was errant.
		Baseline also expects 6'8" PF Dewayne Marable (203-F-77, college: Miles), who played for Raleigh of the WBA, to re-join the squad for the first time this season.
	www.oursportscentral.com /services/releases?id=3094040&l_id=&t_id= (672 words)

	OFF THE BEATEN PATH: The lowdown on some bitchin' superstitions - The McGill Tribune - sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseball is generally considered the most superstitious of any sport, and the voodoo-like nature of the game has produced its share of crazies.
		Not stepping on the baseline between innings, as well as its sister superstition in tennis where the court lines must be avoided when changing sides, draw their roots from the days of Roman gladiators, who made sure to step into the arena with their right foot.
		The origin of the expression "put your best foot forward," this ritual is common in soccer as well as rodeo, where it is necessary to put one's right foot into the stirrup first.
	www.mcgilltribune.com /news/2005/02/08/Sports/Off-The.Beaten.Path.The.Lowdown.On.Some.Bitchin.Superstitions-855431.shtml (762 words)

	Diamond Mind Baseball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		And while most of our ratings are consistent with the opinions expressed by baseball's leading writers and TV personalities, sometimes we conclude that a player is actually performing at a higher or lower level than his reputation would suggest.
		Now Moose Skowron hit some baseballs a long way, but nobody is going to say that he was the greatest hitting first baseman ever because 'One time I saw him hit a baseball so far that..." It is understood, about hitters, that the important question is not how spectacularly but how often.
		Baseball analysts, ourselves included, have made many attempts to devise methods that deal with some of these other factors so that we can isolate the contribution the player is making.
	www.diamond-mind.com /articles/defeval.htm (7169 words)

	Major League Baseball Struggles to Reach Fans Online
		Major League Baseball faces the kind of channel conflict a lot of businesses would love to have.
		Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the MLB subsidiary responsible for delivering live audio and video streaming of professional baseball games to subscribers logging on to MLB.com, has been dancing on that edge, and pretty successfully too.
		Baseline is a registered trademark of, and the Baseline signature line, Case Dissection, Topline and Retrospect are trademarks of, Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc.
	www.baselinemag.com /article2/0,1397,1777501,00.asp (620 words)

	House Research Bill Summary
		The total maximum public investment for a baseball stadium is fixed at $478 million, of which $100 million is the maximum state investment.
		Requires an executed agreement with major league baseball providing that for 30 years or the term of the baseball stadium bonds, a major league franchise will be a tenant at the stadium.
		For baseball, the refund is equal to the player payroll for the current year, minus the baseline player payroll, times the payroll percentage for baseball; plus the difference between the current year sales tax on baseball-related events in the stadium and the baseline baseball sales tax.
	www.house.leg.state.mn.us /scripts/billsum.pl?fname=HF3089&session=83&session_number=0&year=2004 (2499 words)

	Most Valuable Network - Tennis Diary » Practice Routine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Forehand approach: standing in the middle of the baseline, throw the ball into the court and hit two forehand approach shots each to positions 7, 8 and 9.
		Forehand high bouncing shot: standing in the middle of the baseline, hit the ball high in the air with racket to the forehand side and hit two forehand high bouncing shots to positions 7, 8 and 9.
		Backhand high bouncing shot: standing in the middle of the baseline, hit the ball high in the air with racket to the backhand side and hit two backhand high bouncing shots to positions 9, 8 and 7.
	tennis.mostvaluablenetwork.com /index.php?p=11 (1300 words)

	Preesident's Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baseline Baseball Inc.is the corporation I started because I wanted to be involved in helping young players achieve their baseball goals.
		All practices are designed to prepare each player for their upcoming seasons and hopefully baseball opportunities after they graduate from high school.
		The ultimate goal of Baseline Baseball is to bring each player to a higher level and make them more attractive recruit.
	www.baselinebaseball.com /coach_bio.htm (517 words)

	Baseline Welfare Cases
		In reality, though, such support is grossly misguided, as only select businesses clearly benefit from such subsidies--namely, the baseball team that plays in the facility, and the architectural and construction firms that build the ballpark.
		For example, the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority (VBSA) released a report in July 2000 prepared by a George Mason University professor, Stephen S. Fuller, asserting that over 30 years, a new baseball team and ballpark in Virginia would generate $8.6 billion in economic activity, and produce $693 million in revenues for state and local government.
		Instead, baseball teams need to compete in the marketplace just like any other business: offering a product, gauging the consumer's response, and running the business accordingly--including determining what type of ballpark the team can afford to build.
	www.newcolonist.com /stadium.html (2566 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The highlight of the Field Level renovation is the addition of 1,600 new Baseline Field Box seats in what formerly was foul territory on the field.
		In addition to the Baseline Field Boxes, the project includes an expansion and renovation of the Dugout Club, a LED scoreboard along the base of the Loge Level, the reconstruction of the dugouts closer to the field and the replacement of the rubberized warning track with a dirt warning track.
		Dodger Stadium, which opened for the 1962 season, was renovated for the 2000 season with the installment of the Dugout Club, additional field level seats and suites on the Club Level.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050329&content_id=979764&vkey=spt2005news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (336 words)

	Baseline-WBA Stars hang on to beat Fort McPherson 97-88 - OurSports Central
		Baseline’s fast pace offensive attack and strong zone defense threw the Knights off, as the Stars built a large first half lead, taking a 49-31 spread into the intermission.
		BASELINE NOTES: Sunday's win moves Baseline’s overall 2004-5 record to 29-6 and 8-4 on the tour season portion of the schedule.
		Martinique National Team officials informed Baseline they will not be able to play the three games that were postponed last week, thus giving the Stars forfeit wins for those scheduled matchups.
	www.oursportscentral.com /services/releases?id=3097483&l_id=&t_id= (449 words)

	The Official Forum - I need a little help on this one. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This ruling concerns a runner running 3 feet off the baseline to avoid the tag.
		Posted by GarthB on Aug 3rd, 2002 02:24 AM Despite the rule book defining the runner's baseline as a direct path between the bases (one of several admitted errors in the book) you've got the essence of the rule.
		From your description it sounds to me like the runner left the baseline to avoid colliding with the catcher who had not yet received the ball, thus could not be attempting a tag.
	www.officialforum.com /printthread.php?threadid=5548 (413 words)

	eteamz: Baseline Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Being between the runner and the base to which he is proceeding with the ball in hand probably puts the restriction on the runner in my eyes.
		The baseline is a straight line from wherever the runner happens to be and the base the runner is going to.
		The runner is held to the baseline only when a fielder is between him and the base,has the ball, and tries to tag him.
	www.teamdiscovery.com /baseball/boards/obrrules/message.cfm?id=1021409 (1975 words)

	Baseball HQ - FREE PREVIEW
		But these days, the forecasts are also a handy baseline against which to complain about all those aberrant stat lines.
		Its value to fantasy leaguers is merely to provide a starting point, a baseline for what is about to occur.
		Baseball HQ is intended for entertainment purposes only.
	www.baseballhq.com /free/free040416.shtml (1102 words)

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