Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 November 11

= November 11 =

Wally Moon's hitting style
A current AFD pointed me to a news article about "arena baseball" in Los Angeles after the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn. The article observes that one of those who benefited from the odd shape of the field (which resulted from the Los Angeles Coliseum not being built for baseball) was Wally Moon, who found out how to "inside-out fly balls over the left-field barrier". What does it mean to "inside-out" a hit? Our article on him simply says that he "adjusted his batting to emphasize hitting to left". Nyttend (talk) 13:13, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Basically, it means the opposite of "pulling" a ball (i.e., hitting to left field if one is a right-handed batter ot to right field if one is a left-handed batter). One does it by keeping one's hands ahead of the barrel of the bat while swinging, so that if one is a left-handed batter (like Moon), one hits to left field rather than right field. Deor (talk) 17:44, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * By the way, why is it that certain players appear (or used to appear) much more frequently than others in packs of baseball cards? When I was a kid in the 50s, it seemed that Moon, Bob Lemon, or Smoky Burgess was there in every pack of gum I bought. Deor (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Money. How do you make the hot rookie's card more valuable to the collectors?  Release fewer of them.  I used to collect and even worked in a baseball card shop for a couple years in my mis-spent youth.  There were some years/companies where I had a dozen of a single lesser known player but had to buy dozens of packs to get the hard to find hot players.  Add to that the fact that some companies were horrible at randomizing where the cards could be found in a box.  Several times I knew where to find a certain card if the box were just opened.  The guys running the shops knew these tricks, so they'd pull out that pack after opening a box, open the pack, put the high value card in a collector's sleeve and sell it for several times the price of the pack it came out of.  Dismas |(talk) 07:54, 13 November 2011 (UTC)


 * If you google [inside out swing baseball], you'll find plenty of references, including this one in a site providing tips for Little League. Somewhere down the page is a still of Derek Jeter using that style. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:35, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Would anybody touch up on this article?
It's FallDown! an iOS app. It's free by the way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CHRISTIANgamer97 (talk • contribs)
 * Actually, reliable secondary sources unaffiliated with the subject which provide non-trivial coverage would be nice if you don't want the article to be deleted for lack of notability. Ian.thomson (talk) 14:18, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't delete other's comments. Ian.thomson (talk)