Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: Return of the Spitball

Monday, June 07, 2021

By Nicholas Stix

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/06/04/sticky-stuff-is-the-new-steroids-daily-cover?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Anonymous said...: Baseball is sh*tball now.The White Sox line up is 5 or 6 out of 9 Mex every day. That isn't American baseball. In the same way,the US Women's Open was on yesterday--the top 5 were all Asians golfers.Why watch it?

--GRA; Monday, June 7, 2021 at 1:27:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...: This sounds like something from over one-hundred years ago. Spit from tobacco or licorice was popular then. Emery ball [emery pad sewn into the pitchers mitt] or cut-ball [pitcher slices the ball with a sharp belt buckle.

Umpires replace the ball frequently. They used to play an entire game with one ball in the dead ball era. Even home runs would be thrown back into play by "fans" in the bleachers.; Monday, June 7, 2021 at 9:39:00 PM EDT

Nicholas Stix, Uncensored