Some holiday weekend reading for you about how the game has changed into this boring version we watch now. The article has lots of fawning over Keith Hernandez, so I think you will like it.
Even the great Rusty Staub, a superb outfielder for many years before becoming the pinch-hitting extraordinaire for the New York Mets at the end of his career, would not merit a roster spot in today’s game. Not versatile enough. No matter how much he could hit. It’s debatable if he could’ve been a DH in the American League today. And Le Grand Orange, as fans called him in Montreal when he played there, was not only a threat at the end of his career, but he was pure electricity at key moments in the game, fr
Source: How Baseball Lost Itself: A Tragedy » Foul Territory Baseball
