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It's the Fourth of July. Let's hear it for Sam Fuld!
Posted by David Hepworth on 4 July 2011 - 8:14pm.
Do you follow the baseball? Can't say I do any more than intermittently. However, I have been enthralled by the story of Sam Fuld, who plays for the Tampa Bay Rays. He's overcome all sorts of obstacles to make it to the top. He was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 10. His parents are upper middle class. He went to a top university. And now he's lighting up the season with a series of catches that for sheer gravity defying athleticism and raw courage make even the best fielders in cricket look as if they're not trying. Like this one.
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Great catch...
...but there's no need to belittle cricketers.
And no poncey gloves
(Oops - just seen Merv's below)
The catcher in the Rays (sorry)...
Magnificent.
Brilliant catch
but some cricketers these days are up to the level of baseball. Would like to see a Baseball player field at Short leg.
Or...
...without a glove!
I played cricket and baseball for many years
and the difference in fielding standards can be measured by the fact that cricketers have a lower expectation of what their teammates can do.
There is no excuse for dropping a catch in baseball, you really are expected to snare everything you get a glove to, no matter the standard you are playing.
This is Glenn McGrath (not a great fielder) taking a similar catch at Adelaide Oval.
Awesome
Knocks Willie Mays' catch into a cocked hat.
Went to my first baseball game this year
Sat with some Australian colleagues and we all agreed that baseball would be more exciting (we were all slightly underwhelmed by the 0-1 game that we saw) if they took the gloves off the fielders. We didn't see a single dropped catch and the nonchalance of the fielders when the ball is coming at them suggested that catching it was pretty simple.
I think it was
ironic