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Eric Rasmussen and Days of Baseball Gone By wants you to remember cool wind-ups

Here's the link to the partial game, https://youtu.be/FOfO3T2AH_I The more I've curated and thought about the game during the troubles of our time, I realize that my affection for the game is mostly that of a child who is young enough that being at play is the natural state. I love baseball because of memories of Dad's shed and woodpile. Those inanimate objects were ever so essential to my childish play. Those edges and irregular shapes provided the unpredictable bounce. Those boundries were the white chalked and painted lines of my baseball experience. From expected rebounds of a worn down tennis ball off the shed to the madness of the woodpile's ricochet, where I could burn off the boredom of Northern Ontario isolation, my fanhood stems from the mimicking what I saw on TV, from my imagination of a radio call and what it brought to my tender sense of adventure. That's why I can't throw in completely with the analytics crowd that wants to tear down the legends with the filter tool of a spreadsheet. That's why tales of baseball that fail to inform about what a ballplayer looked like with glove on hand, as he anticipated the randomness of a ball in play off a round cue, misses my figerative sweet spot. I see the game in terms of the asethetic, in terms of remembering the fun that pretending I could be living that big league life if I crouched like Mattingly, Boggs, or the one true Tony (you know whose memory I'm invoking if you're a Jays fan). Stretching out for a tricky backhand snatch, made even more tricky by a parking lot full of stones, moss, and roots, is what I feel when tuning in today. Although the big 5-oh is but a baker's dozen worth of months away, the wind-up from the mound can mesmerize for innings should it remind me of unique motions and mannerisms. That, dear subscriber, fellow baseball fan, is why Eric Rasmussen's 1979 start in Wrigley is on this channel. Freak'n beautiful, no. It would have been a crime against baseball for anyone to have reached base and forced the Padre to employ anything but that glorious wind-up. So, so pretty. #pitchers #windup #classicbaseball #Padres #SanDiego #EricRasmussen #WrigleyField #Cubs #Chicago #JackBrickhouse