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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: DH
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 17:40:39 EDT
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>    I have an interesting idea about approaching the DH rule. If it is
> so significantly different, why don't we let the American league use the
> DH rule in the All-Star game and make the National league do without
> it. Both leagues would be functioning under the rules they are used to
> and if it makes that much of a difference, then the All-Star game would
> no longer be as lopsided as it has been in the past.

This would probably not have as much of an effect in the All-Star game
as it would in a normal game, because pitchers are limited to three
innings of pitching.  Their time at bat would often come in the inning
they would be lifted anyway.

Come to think of it, not having a DH would probably give more players an
opportunity to play, if only as a pinch-hitter for a pitcher.  Isn't that
the idea for a showcase.

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		Steve Vegdahl
		Computer Research Lab.
		Tektronix, Inc.
		Beaverton, Oregon

Things I dislike about baseball:
	the DH
	artificial turf
	domed stadiums
	playoffs that run almost into November
	fan-balloting for the All-Star game

Things I like about baseball:
	watching Billy Martin argue with an umpire
	Wrigley and Fenway
	the World Series
	a close play at the plate
	the absence of Charlie Finley