re: Who was the Punk for FSU who pimped his home run like it was the first he ever hit?

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Personally, if it wouldn't cost us the game, I'd have instructed my pitcher to put a #1 in his earhole.

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That's the best part of a bat flip. Triggering the opposing team to melt and give you an extra base.

Hit a home run and turn it into 5 bases instead of 4. You clear the bases and get a free base runner.

All because of p*ssies like you melting. I would tell my kids to bat flip every homer off of you. You are a snowflake and would get your arse kicked every game

If I remember correctly, Conigliaro wasn't intentionally hit. That's part of the game.

“Knock down” pitch? I think the term you are looking for is “brush back”. Played baseball since I was 5 and never heard anyone call it s knock down. Unless of course the batter was beaned and knocked down.

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If I remember correctly, Conigliaro wasn't intentionally hit. That's part of the game.

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Like anyone would admit to it being intentional. Intentional or not, the injury can be the same. Throwing a #1 in the ear hole has no place in amateur baseball. Do what you want at the professional level.

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Like anyone would admit to it being intentional. Intentional or not, the injury can be the same. Throwing a #1 in the ear hole has no place in amateur baseball. Do what you want at the professional level.

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There was never, to my knowledge, any accusation made that it was. Bad shite sometimes happens in baseball...ask Herb Score...he pitched the ball that nearly killed him.

Knockdown pitches have a rich, rough history
JOHN STEADMAN
THE BALTIMORE SUN
"Knockdown pitches are born of varied circumstances. Early Wynn, a notorious headhunter, once tried to hit George Kell, who was taking a lead off first base, after he hit a line drive through the pitcher's box. Wynn took umbrage and wanted payback - then and there.

Al Rosen, playing first base for the Cleveland Indians on a temporary basis, told Kell to stay loose. "You're a friend of mine," Rosen said, "but Wynn is going to try to throw over here and hit you."
It might have been one of the few times Wynn never turned his target upside-down. His reputation was to bore batters, not base runners, with fastballs as a method of intimidation.

Now to the bizarre. In 1923, Nick Cullop, one of those ponderous minor-league home run hitters, began his career as a pitcher. Away from his St. Louis home for the first time and pitching for Omaha in an exhibition in Muskogee, Okla., Cullop was told by his manager, Art Griggs, to knock down Alabama Jones when he next came to the plate.

Cullop struck him out, but Griggs was unhappy. "I told you to knock him down," said Griggs. "Are you gutless? I want him knocked down."

So Cullop took him literally. When Jones came up the next time, Nick charged off the mound and started punching him as hard as he could. "I was just a dumb kid back then," Cullop told us during a memorable visit in 1959 when he was concluding a long career managing in the minors.

As an aside, Cullop was the only man we ever knew who bought a newspaper, tore out the sports section and threw the rest away. Oh, for the good old days when ballplayers didn't try to be something they weren't: sophisticated.

The knockdown pitch has always been a part of the game.Once, Leo Durocher, ordered Stan Musial walked intentionally - but only after all four pitches put him in the dirt. Little wonder Stan had such low regard for Durocher.

Sometimes throwing at a batter is a possible personal matter. In a midseason 1934 exhibition between the New York Yankees and their farm club, the Norfolk Tars, Lou Gehrig was hit in the head by pitcher Ray White, a fellow Columbia University alumnus.

Gehrig had met White numerous times. They were introduced by their college coach, Andy Coakley. But Gehrig remained aloof. In training camp, Gehrig ignored White. He hit two home runs off him in an exhibition, facing the Newark Bears, the Yanks' top farm club. The third time up, a fastball grazed his head.

Now it was a game in Norfolk. Gehrig homered again off White. But when he came up for the second time, a pitch hit him in the head and the ball bounced to the press box. Gehrig dropped and was unconscious for five minutes before being taken to a hospital.

A fractured skull was feared, but doctors ruled a concussion. Gehrig's