The field

Agreed: It's not "equipment." But it's an interesting subject nonetheless.

Did you ever stop to consider that the size of a baseball field may give a team an advantage not intended by the rules (but definitely intended by the owners of the park)?

Yankee Stadium is a case in point. During the "hey-day" of the Yankees in the last century (20s through early 60s) they tailored their teams to take advantage of the distance to the fence in right field: 295 ft. until 1937, 296 until 1976, when it became the present-day 314.

That short porch in right was created to cater to left-handed power hitters like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. That's the conventional wisdom. That's what you and I have heard all our lives from people like Mel Allen and Tim McWho.

The facts don't support that assertion.

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