I miss Ralph Kiner.

“Sports Challenge.” “Everyone looked like “Lindsay Nelson on that show.”

In a recent Village Voice column mostly focusing on C.C. Sabathia, Allen Barra takes the opportunity to wax nostalgic:

One of the worst things they ever did to relief pitching was invent the ‘save’ category. If they hadn’t done that, managers would bring in their best relief pitchers at the point in the game where he could do his team the most good. Casey Stengel used to do that, and so, a lot of times, did Leo Durocher. Now you’re paying the relief aces for saves, and you can only bring them in in save situations where your team is already ahead. They show you how many games a relief pitcher saves, but they never tell you how many games a team loses because a manager didn’t use his best reliever in the toughest situation.