Where did the "around the horn" come from after a strikeout in baseball?
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2 things, first the espn show, which is below, or after a strikeout the cather will throw the ball to the 3rd baseman, 3b will thow the ball to 2b then 2b to 1b then 1b back to pitcher, around the diamond or around the horn and when the navigators went around the cape of good hope, it was going around the horn.\n\nI hope this helps.\n\nAround The Horn is a daily, half-hour sports talk program on ESPN. It airs at 5:00 ET, immediately preceding ESPN's most successful sports talk program, Pardon the Interruption. Around The Horn premiered on November 4, 2002. Its official title is Around the Horn Presented by Nissan. The show recently aired its 600th episode on September 13, 2005.\n\nAround The Horn follows a standard format. The host, Tony Reali, moderates discussions of various sports topics among four different sports columnists and awards points for good arguments. In addition, he can mute columnists for 10 seconds, which also subtracts a point from their score. At the end of the second and third rounds of discussion a columnist is eliminated, until only two are left for the final "Showdown" round. The winner of the showdown is given 20 or 30 uninterrupted seconds to comment on any topic they please in a segment called "Face Time" as well as be awarded a gold medal that appears at the top-left corner of the screen.
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Steve is Steve Bartman, who reached out  and grabbed a ball that was headed for a player's glove. That player Moises Alou, plays for the Cubs (quite possibly the worst luck in all of sports now that the Red Sox have broken the Bambino's curse) and the Cubs were 5 outs away from reaching the World Series in 2003. Bartman's catch, in a famous "non-call" was not ruled fan interference and it seemed to break the Cubbie concentration. The Marlins (the Cubs opponent that day) scored 8 unanswered runs. The Cubs lose and don't go to the Series for the first time since 1945, don't get a chance to win their first fall classic since 1908 and Bartman lives in infamy forever in Chicago, even though he's a lifelong Cubs fan. He was lead out of the ballpark under police escort and is recognized in sports bars allover Chicagoland. \n\nI hope this helps. If you want to know more, look up the Cubs, Steve Bartman and the curse of the Bambino in wikipedia
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In baseball, a walk-off home run is a home run which ends the game. It must be a home run that gives the home team the lead in the bottom of the 9th inning or the bottom of any extra inning. It is called a "walk-off" home run because the teams walk off the field immediately afterward. Sportscasters also use the term "walk-off double" or other such terms if such a hit drives in the winning run to end the game. The terms walk-off hit by pitch or walk-off balk have been applied, and the latter has been dubbed a balk-off (these types of questionable walk-offs are seen by some fans as cheapening the concept). Although the concept is as old as baseball, the term itself has come into use only in the last few decades.
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It is generally credited to the Hall of Fame baseball player and manager Yogi Berra, who is perhaps known more at this point in time for his oxymoron sayings rather than his baseball accomplishments during the 1940's - 1980's.\n\nHis point being that even if unlikely due to the odds (score), until the game is complete, anything could happen and be a rallying point.
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Go here:\n\nhttp://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050802&content_id=1154523&vkey=allstar2006&fext=.jsp
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The best sports coach/manager tirade ever was Lou Piniella while with Seattle in September of 2002. He went off. There was a bad call at first base and he was livid. He first threw and then kicked his hat (he would throw it again later). Screamed quite a bit at the ump. Then, this is the kicker, he threw first base into the outfield not once, but twice. That's a classic tirade and when he left the field, he got a standing ovation. How about that. This is all from memory, but there's a link below. Enjoy.
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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml
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It stands for a strikeout, not a strike.  I've heard that it originated in the 19th century, when scoring a game, the scorer kept track of the number of strikes by using the three lines that comprise the letter K.  The third strike completed the "K", and was used to symbolize a strikeout in a scoresheet or scorebook. Not sure if this is legend or fact, but it does make sense.
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Way back when letters were used on scorecards, instead of the way they do it today.  So A meant something, B meant something else, etc.  By the time it got to K...that was strikeout.  The rest of the scoring has changed, but K has stuck.
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One theory holds that "S" was already being used for or could be confused with a single, stolen base, sacrifice fly or sacrifice hit (bunt), second base, or even SS for shortstop. \n\nBut that prob'ly aint it at all. And some people do use SO for strike out The most common scoring system used today, and the one you'll find in your program, with it's diamond diagram and the positions numbered 1 for pitcher, 2 for catcher, 3 for 1st base, etc. was, according to the folks at Cooperstown, invented by one Henry Chadwick in 1874. \n\nApparently Mr Chadwick was just impressed with the harsh sound of the K in the word strike. Though I hardly ever hear that k sound from an umpire, most of them just sound like they are saying "Ssstryyyyyy!" or even just "Ryyyyyyyye!" \n\nSome people just put one K in the diamond for a strike out , some use Kc or a backwards K for a called third strike. Others put each strike in the diamond with an F for a foul strike. Some even keep a record of each pitch and where it crossed or didn't cross the plate, usually that is kept in a separate area for the pitchers stats and then compared later to the batters stats if ya wanta get that involved. They use a FK for foul strike and F for fouls after the 2nd strike. \n\nThat is way too fouled up for me. In fact I am one of those who gets fouled up by the 3 for 1st base, when I do try to score a game I use letters and numbers for the positions, 1 is firstbaseman, Cf center field, Ph pinchhitter. \n\nBut anyway that trying to keep a record of each pitch, or at least each strike, in the tiny diamond, some claim is the main evidence for another theory, the first strike was a vertical line "I", the second was the top angle line, the third the bottom angle.\n\nMaybe Old Chadwick just liked the K sound in his own name and used it, who Knows? K passa? 'K? \n\nThere kould be other theories but there is little evidence to support the theory that there are sekret Klan Konklaves goin on out there under the skoreboard.
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As The Straight Dope explains, we owe the "K" to an early sportswriter named Henry Chadwick. In fact, Chadwick and another writer named M.J. Kelly are largely responsible for the scoring system baseball uses today. \nBut whence the K? Chadwick already had "S" slated for "sacrifice." So a strikeout became a "K", after the last letter of the word "struck." The reason a strikeout isn't a "T" is because "struck" was the preferred term of the day. \n\nWhile we tend to side with the Straight Dope (which cites Pete Palmer's book Total Baseball and Neil Cohen's article "How to Score a Game" as its sources), you can read some other creative "K" theories on this baseball message board. We especially like "the three lines in a K, three strikes in a strikeout" suggestion.
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1994 strike that wiped out 920 and the World Series. We're just now starting to climb out of that black hole.\n\n-- Maury Brown\nBaseball Prospectus
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Main article: History of baseball \nThe origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, and many believe that baseball is primarily an American invention. However, because of the similarity in its most basic form, of its rules and game-play, it is far more likely that it originated as an adaptation of the game of English rounders, vigaro and town ball. It was also influenced by the rules of cricket.\n\n \n1886 baseball demonstration at Conner Prairie living history museum.The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball. The English author Jane Austen specifically mentions the game of baseball in her novel, Northanger Abbey, being played by the protagonist, Catherine Moreland. The book was first written in 1798 and revised until publication in 1803.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nAs far back as the 1870s, American newspapers were referring to baseball as "The National Pastime" or "The National Game." An award-winning account of the origins of the game is David Block's Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). The publisher's description of the book notes that "David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all—the Abner Doubleday–Cooperstown story." In short, the debate on the game's origins may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Matthew Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, and they began playing a World Series that year.\n\nCompared to modern times, games in the early part of the 20th century were lower scoring and pitchers were more successful. The "inside game", whose nature was to "scratch for runs", was played rather more violently and aggressively than it is today. Ty Cobb said of his era especially, "Baseball is something like a war!" This period, which has since become known as the "dead-ball era", ended in the 1920s with several rule changes that gave advantages to hitters and the rise of the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who showed the world what power hitting could produce and thus changed the nature of the game.\n\nDuring the first half of the 20th century, a "gentlemen's agreement" in the form of the baseball
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1 word. amamzing\n\ni went to a game last june. rangers vs. red sox. the sox were losing in the bottom of the ninth and you know who hit the walk off dinger. words cant explain what the atmosphere was like after he hit it. it is something i will never forget. i just remember everyone was standing up and cheering as soon as big papi stepped up. and after he hit it there was a constant stading ovation for like another 10 minutes after he hit it. no one wanted to leave. everyone wanted to soke in the moment. \n\n\njerry remi: "BIG PAPI DOES IT AGAIN!!!!! THE RED SOX WIN!!!!!!"\n\n\ngood stuff....
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however annoying it may be, it is legal to do that\njust like the above person said, it's yelled so your teammates will be prepared to receive it.\nIt's just the same as when someone calls "SHORT" or "FLOAT" or if during a rally "FREEBALL"\nthey aren't, however, allowed to say crap to the opposing team.\nlol i remember : ball was going out one time but our whole team started yelling it's good and the other team shanked it. XD \nirksome? yes, but legal
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Here is a bit of info - with a link to more info below:\n\nMost cultures have some sort of stick and ball game, cricket being the most well-known. While the exact origins of baseball are unknown, most historians agree that it is based on the English game of rounders. It began to become quote popular in this country in the early 19th century, and many sources report the growing popularity of a game called "townball", "base", or "baseball".\n\nThroughout the early part of that century, small towns formed teams, and baseball clubs were formed in larger cities. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright wanted to formalize a list of rules by which all team could play. Much of that original code is still in place today. Although popular legend says that the game was invented by Abner Doubleday, baseball's true father was Cartwright.\n\nThe first recorded baseball contest took place a year later, in 1846. Cartwright's Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club in a game at the Elysian Fields, in Hoboken, New Jersey. These amateur games became more frequent and more popular. In 1857, a convention of amateur teams was called to discuss rules and other issues. Twenty five teams from the northeast sent delegates. The following year, they formed the National Association of Base Ball Players, the first organized baseball league. In its first year of operation, the league supported itself by occasionally charging fans for admission. The future looked very bright.
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I'm pretty sure it was Tom Seaver in 1984. He ended the first game, which was actually the continuation of the previous night's game and then started the next game and pitched almost the whole thing.\n\nEdit - All right I went and found more info on it. I dont know if anyone has done it since though.