An analysis of the Baseball Almanac suggests that any batting average above .300 is considered excellent. Many batter fall below this level, but are still considered effective hitters. However, if a hitter’s batting average falls to .200 or below, then the batter is often considered to be a...
The barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled. Bucket The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted. Barrel A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Bucket The pitcher in certain orchids. Barrel (te...
in Iowa, as in many other states, they’ve decided that they don’t want “poor” people to suffer the indignity of having to whip out a book of “stamps” to obtain food aid. So now, it’s done with a little plastic debit card. Whip it out, swipe it through the machine just ...
With the baseball easier to see and to hit hard, batters went to town. Leading the charge, as everyone knows, was the spectacular Babe Ruth. His towering success is often said to have convinced everyone else to eschew the traditional choke-up-and-put-it-in-play approach and swing for the...
WHIP. ERA. etc? It would provide a little further information to the log. I believe this is the old way of doing it in SLB. (leaffan10 - Hall of Famer - 12:16 PM) Given the size constraints we decided to go with core stats rather than the calculated stats. ...
Every time I see someone on an airplane tuck an iPad into a seat back pocket or a passenger whip out a pair of AirPods, I wonder which ones will not be leaving the aircraft with their owners. It’s like Russian roulette. So it’s no surprise that there aresix pages of Apple products...