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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
Rich did you notice anything different about the zone back then vs. today's zone? In watching games from years past it seems as though they called a higher strike and also below the knee as compared to today.
Pete Booth
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The zone was higher, just as low, and certainly a nice big corner on the outside. What I noticed mainly, was that everyone swung at the high fastball. Otherwise they'd be taking a strike.
Pitching and umpiring are different. High pitches are considered mistakes (by everyone) and timing, angle, and distance seem to be things that only started to be taught with the advent of the modern umpire schools, although the Denkinger missed call looked a lot like how every call was made at first in this series.
The plate guy was Ed Hurley, working his final game in the big leagues. He came up in 1947 and appeared on What's My Line during the 1953 World Series. He was also the plate guy when the midget Eddie Goedel batter for Bill Veeck and the St. Louis Browns.