An Interesting Take

[Bassman]

I'm a subscriber to Netflix and just got games 1 and 2 of the 1975 World Series between the BoSox and the Big Red Machine.

But anyhoo, I'm mostly interested in how the games were umpired back then. I was 7 when the Series originally took place and didn't care for baseball one iota. Today, however, and as an umpire, I'm looking at the game very differently now. Game one had Art Franz (AL) behind the plate and Game two had Nick Colosi (NL) working the dish. Now I have a better idea of how vastly different the pitches were called when you had the AL using "the raft" (That's the outside Balloon Chest Protector for those of you in Rio Linda) and the NL using the inside protector. As a matter of fact, Colosi set up practically at catcher height when calling pitches.

I just find it very interesting. Your thoughts??