Save The Date

November, 2009

In light of James Auld's letter in the Sep­tember issue, here's a further thought on Perfect Game: How to Fix Baseball (May), in which Bill James argues the sport needs to be sped up: Why should we watch lengthy pitcher-batter duels when the batter loses 80 percent of the time? Instead, move the pitcher's mound back until you get a suf­ficiently entertaining on-base percentage. Then we can turn our attention to raising those sagging basketball rims. Remember when players had to jump to dunk?Karl...