What’s Missing From the Dodgers-are-Ruining-Baseball Discussion
Logic, sure, but what else?
Baseball wasn’t ruined in 1880 when it was declared that a base on balls would occur on “eight balls instead of nine” — no joke — nor was it ruined two years later when seven balls instead of eight would do the trick. This bit of weirdness from 1887 didn’t ruin baseball either: “Batter no longer allowed to call for a h…