In the ESPN.com stats pages is a category called Best Games, which is a nifty Bill James devised formula for evaluating starts by pitchers. The formula is pretty simple:
Start with 50 points. Add 1 point for each out recorded, (3 points per inning). Add 2 points for each inning completed after the 4th. Add 1 [...]

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Imagine sitting down to watch a baseball game. You have your beer, your coffee, what have you. You turn on the game and put on your trusty  retinal imaging display (RID) device, which looks like a pair of eye-glasses, and works kind of like something you’ve probably seen in the Terminator movies. You watch the [...]

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This is a pretty fun video of a little league game descended upon by a group of…I’m not sure what to call them…merry makers? Basically what they did is try to guss things up to make these kids feel like they were playing in a professional game.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nbkbss7i5s

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