In the Year Two-Thousand
East Windup Chronicle —
... who passed this over to me. It comes from a 1981 Sporting News Baseball Yearbook, a preview issue of sorts. The writer asks several people what they think baseball will be like twenty years later…in the year 2000. Some of the most amazing quotes involve money, which the writer, I think as a joke, throws out the idea of “$3,000,000-a-year stars.” I’m sure that popped off the page back in those oh so naive pre-Reaganomics days. ...
2000, as seen from 1981
River Avenue Blues —
... comes a fun little article on wezen-ball. The author of this new blog found a preview of 2000 written in 1981. Among the highlights are dire predictions of $3,000,000 salaries and — gasp — $25 tickets. It’s quite amusing to see what happened and what didn’t in the intervening 19 years. ...
Rounding The Bases: Boobs Win Championships
Bugs & Cranks —
... slugging percentage and the other as the Bears defense. Voting ends Wednesday at 6 PM, so do your civic duty. [hHr]
Speaking of competitions, are you ready to play Tie, Scarf, Leash or Animal: What’s Around A-Rod’s Neck? [loHUDyanksBLOG]
Have black sluggers historically been described as “feared” more often than white sluggers? [dugoutCENTRAL]
Predictions from 1981 of what baseball would be like in the year 2000. [wezen-ball via shysterball/HARDBALLtimes]
Did Lou Piniella run Kerry ...
Baseball in the Year 2000: Predictions from 1981
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Baseball in the Year 2000: Predictions from 1981 Looking through the [1981 The Sporting News Baseball Yearbook], I came across an article with a great premise: predicting what will happen to baseball in the year 2000, still 20 years away from the time this was written. Introducing the article, author Joseph Surso wrote, with tongue at least a little in cheek: “One thing you can bet on: the green that will continue to transform the game the most is mint-green, not grass-green. And, considering the stampede for green at all levels of the game in 1981, you almost can envision three ...
1981 Dreamed Of The Future, And It Was The Trop
Bugs & Cranks —
The 1981 Sporting News Baseball Yearbook featured an article predicting what would happen to baseball in the year 2000.
I know this because lar of wezen-ball, a buddy of learned B&C alum Jeremy Happel, was smart enough to dig it up on ebay and post some great quotes from the article on his site.
In addition to quotes from the late Stan Musial and Bowie Kuhn and the Japanese G-POPE Sadaharu Oh, there’s this gem from then-Montreal Expos VP of Player Development, Jim Fanning:
“There will be all ...
1981’s Baseball Soothsayers: Fail
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... Tampa Bay! Denver! Well look at that. 1981’s Sporting News baseball predictors hit a couple on the head. The rest — not so much. ...
Wednesday Wangdoodles
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... though. Not only because Allen could be a hard guy to manage. But because often he wasn't available to manage; Allen didn't enjoy a particularly long career, and during that career he managed to play more than 130 games in only six seasons (including his first three seasons). My problem with Allen isn't that he didn't play well enough or hard enough; it's that he didn't play often enough. • This is the first I've seen of blogger "wezen-ball", but he's off to a good start with this look back at a 1981 preview of 2000 . What jumps out is MLB's labor relations guy -- i.e. ...
John McGraw: a man of his time and ours
The Hardball Times —
Anyone who enjoyed Wezen-Ball's post about the fun predictions contained in the 1981 Sporting News Preview should ...
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