First, Happy Thanksgiving to the Canucks.
Second, is the game still the same?
What do you think the game would be like if:
*the aluminum bat was never invented?
*Ebbetts, Shibe, Tiger, Polo Grounds, Crosley and Forbes fields were still in use?
*batting gloves and pine tar were never invented?
*the Black Sox were never banned?
*it was discovered that Hammerin Hank and Maris accidentally used their corked batting practice bats in games?
*the Babe never noticed that his trainer slipped a steroid tablet in his post-game beer and cigar?
*Jackie never survived 1947?
*Cal never broke the iron-man record?
*players still traveled by train and not plane?
*Wille "Mays" Hayes, Serrano, "Wild Thing" Vaughn and Jake Taylor were for real?
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