The Inanimate Villains of Major League Baseball

It’s Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS; Aaron Boone steps to the plate in the bottom of the 11th. Though his career will span 12 years, 2003 will be Boone’s only postseason appearance. He’ll hit .170, and yet he is about to massacre a 56-mile-per-hour knuckleball from Tim Wakefield into about the 26th deck of Yankee Stadium. This play

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