Things you don't miss about the old days?

[Honus Wagner Rules]

Things you don't miss about the old days? Discuss!

[Los Bravos]

* Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek inflicting themselves on me each Saturday afternoon.

* (In that same vein) having a dozen or so teams that almost never got on TV. With one national broadcast a week (two for a few months when ABC showed games on Monday nights), you were going to see lots of the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets and not so much of a lot of other teams.

* Some truly bad ballparks, especially the three seemingly interchangeable rotten dumplings in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

* Dick Young and his ilk.

[chicagowhitesox1173]

The 70's and 80's being old for me. The Ballparks,uniforms and in my opinion the laziest players baseball has ever seen.

[ian2813]

I became a fan in the mid-90's, so those would be my "old days."

What I don't miss:

The Yankees seeming to be invincible. I still fear them, but they don't give me the sense of hopelessness they used to.

Talk about contraction.

Rooting for two teams that have gone 80+ years without winning the World Series. Now it's only one, with 100+ years of waiting.

Home runs being the media's focus rather than the game itself.

Along those same lines, unreal offensive numbers by everyone and his brother. I prefer baseball the way it is now, with runs harder to come by and thus more valuable. It adds to the drama.

[64Cards]

Astroturf. At Busch and at 6 of the 12 NL ballparks.

Howard Cosell doing baseball on ABC.

The Wave. Which still seems to occasionally pop up, like an old canker sore.

Bowie Kuhn. Marvin Miller. Strikes, lockouts, whatever you want to call it.

Cokeheads.

Pull over jerseys. Powder blue road unis, instead of grey. Yellow, orange, red, rainbow jerseys. Except for jeans, all 70's fashion was crap, come to think of it.

Men wearing suits and ties to ballgames.

8PM starting times for night games.

[tag0519]

Astroturf and Less security at games.

[rsuriyop]

Watching games on old TVs. With infinitely better color, resolution, and audio, watching baseball on more technologically advanced TVs is a whole lot more watchable these days.

[Bothrops Atrox]

People only using the triple crown stats or W-L record/ ERA to determine MVPs, HOFers, etc.

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

-Six balls for a walk
-Foul balls aren't strikes
-No overhand pitching delivery
-50-foot pitching "box"
-Having to ride 20 hours on a dirty train just to see the f***ing Grays play the White Stockings!

[GiambiJuice]

Mullets.

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Unfortunately they seem to be making a comeback...

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[westsidegrounds]

-Six balls for a walk
-Foul balls aren't strikes
-No overhand pitching delivery
-50-foot pitching "box"
-Having to ride 20 hours on a dirty train just to see the f***ing Grays play the White Stockings!

Totally agree! also, "caught on the first bounce is out"??? Puh-LEEZE!

[Cap78]

-Six balls for a walk
-Foul balls aren't strikes
-No overhand pitching delivery
-50-foot pitching "box"
-Having to ride 20 hours on a dirty train just to see the f***ing Grays play the White Stockings!

Seriously? When did you have to endure that? The freaking Grays have been extinct for a century

[ian2813]

-Six balls for a walk
-Foul balls aren't strikes
-No overhand pitching delivery
-50-foot pitching "box"
-Having to ride 20 hours on a dirty train just to see the f***ing Grays play the White Stockings!

Well heck, if we're talking about things that predate our fandom, we might as well throw in segregation. It's a shame we'll never know how many Negro League greats would've performed in an integrated major leagues.

[White Knight]

Men wearing suits and ties to ballgames.

How old are you, 90?

[Los Bravos]

Badly maintained grass at the parks with natural turf.

The science of groundskeeping, both aesthetically (much nicer and more uniformly green, with a lack of dead spots) and functionally (drainage is dramatically better than it was even 30 years ago), has taken a quantum leap in recent years.