4 Balks in 1 at bat

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

The neighborhood was born LONG before that.

Correct. I can't pinpoint the date, but I do know that umpires were giving the neighborhood play at the ML level when I first started attending ML games in 1963...some four years before Carew made it to the majors.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

Correct. I can't pinpoint the date, but I do know that umpires were giving the neighborhood play at the ML level when I first started attending ML games in 1963...some four years before Carew made it to the majors.

And it was a very large neighborhood indeed, more like the entire zip code.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Rewrite: Hall-of-Fame-bound Rod Carew got his knee torn in half getting taken out on a pivot, and the neighborhood was more uniformly accepted as a result.

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

And it was a very large neighborhood indeed, more like the entire zip code.

Zip codes were introduced in 1963. We hadn't yet hung that label on the neighborhood play. I remember my dad referring to "Zones". (God, I'm getting old.)