I believe that Balor’s Moores pitch was clocked at 18 mph when that photo was taken. Great mechanics, Balor!

“On September 16, 1972 [Balor] Moore extended his scoreless-inning streak to 25 before serving up a 7th-inning 3-run home, the first for Phillies rookie Mike Schmidt.”

It seems like that may have been better fodder for the 1980 card. But I, too, digress.

Y’know, chuck a nice soft pitch and get out of the way.

But that’s just my theory.
(Who knew the 1980 Balor Moore card, like the Kennedy assassination, could spawn multiple theories?)

And like I said about process of elimination–you can usually weed out the obvious ones: Fenway’s green wall, Comiskey’s green wall with yellow box seat railings, Milwaukee’s red gate-fence, which also gave itself away in the Cleveland shots in Major League, Memorial Stadium with its short, see through fence, the turf fields, etc. (I’m talking foul territory fences, which is what’s usually in the background–when it’s the outfield fence, it’s even more obvious.) Even Tiger Stadium, which has a very similar blue wall to YS, had a metal railing above that wall, whereas YS has no railing atop the wall. And there really is a telltale sun/shadow line, halfway up the lower deck at YS, right at the walkway.

That’s no evidence of effort or lack thereof. No matter how comfortable his glove is, he needs some tension in his muscles to make sure it doesn’t fall off his hand.

Also, I recently got a hold of some pictures of me while running. Running, particularly distance running (which is what I was doing) doesn’t really require the use of the arms for anything but balance. So, the arms aren’t doing anything, and yet, they still look like they are. I’m not particularly cut, but my arms looked about the same as Balor’s here.

So I’d think that the upright posture of the third baseman would be more significant, really.

I thought this would be as good a place as any to post this: I was in my local baseball card shop yesterday and one of the owners — a Brewers fan — told me he started and completed a project a few years back. He has one baseball card for every Milwaukee Brewer that ever played at least one game for them. Using Baseball-Reference.com, I see there are 680 players, so this was quite a collection. In some cases, there is no Brewers card for a player so a card with another team is used.

This sounded like fun, so I am going to do the same for the LA Dodgers. I will eventually get one card of all 714 players that have played at least one game as an LA Dodger. About 90% should be easy, but some (I’m looking at you Dave Sells) will be difficult.

I was inspired that I found a 1985 Topps German Rivera card (http://tinyurl.com/5f44xf). If I can find him, anyone is possible!

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Ebay is great, and also baseballcardproject.com is a good spot to view or lookup old cards.