Phooey. Rhymes with Bowie.
Former commissioner of baseball Bowie Kuhn passed away yesterday, at the age of 80. I’ll be honest, I don’t really remember the man. After all, his tenure ended in 1984, when I was the ripe old age of nine, and who besides Wade A pays attention to such things at a young age? I do remember his successors: Peter Ueberroth, Bart Giamatti (yes, father of a noted wine lover), and Fay Vincent, but that is neither here nor there.
Buster Olney wrote up a nice little obit at the bottom of his blog today, and included this quote:
“I’m the guy who’s responsible for the DH. I thought I’d get the National League to vote for it on an experimental basis. Well, I got the National League to vote for it in the American League. Some people think it’s perfectly terrible, that they have one rule in the American and one in the National, but that doesn’t bother me. It gives you wonderful contrast. You can argue and debate it.”
It’s this little gem that I’d like to discuss today.
