With apologies to Sidney J. Harris, this posting is about things I learned while trying to research an altogether different idea for VFTB. My initial idea relates to one of the hoary, old myths in Cubs folklore. But I have not run to ground all of the information that I want in order to write it. Then serendipity barged in. While researching my first idea, which I am going to continue noodling for the future, I became interested in an unrelated topic, namely, rules changes in baseball down the years.
Did you know that once upon a time, a batter could request a high or low pitch?