Touch 'Em All Traditional Cache
NHAnimator: I am no longer actively geocaching. I attempted to get this cache adopted, but could not find a taker. Thank you for the interest.
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NOTE: This cache is up for immediate adoption. Please contact the owner (NHAnimator) if you are interested in taking ownership. If not transferred by September 30, 2019, it will be archived.
If there is practice or a game going on, you'll have to be very stealthy in retrieving/placing this cache. Thanks for your assistance. Note: In winter months, the access road does not get plowed.
In every other sport, if you or the ball touches the sideline, it's considered out. But did you know that if a ball touches the line in baseball, it's considered fair and in play?
The foul pole was invented as a vertical extension of baseball's foul lines to aid an umpire in determining whether a ball hit over a fence is fair or foul as they may not be able to see where it would actually land. The defined line between fair and foul is the very outside edge of the painted line/pole. A batted ball which just clips the pole or the chalked line is considered fair. And a ball that touches a foul pole before it touches anything else (the ground, a player's glove, etc.) is considered a home run.
The Boston Red Sox have two very famous foul poles. Pesky's Pole (named for Red Sox great Johnny Pesky in 1948) stands only about 302 feet down the right field line and is the shortest distance to a wall down any line in the majors. In 2005, the Fisk Foul Pole was named in honor of Carlton Fisk. In the 1975 World Series, Fisk drove a ball towards the left field pole and was later shown jumping and waving the ball to stay fair - an image ingrained in many New England sports fans' minds. The ball hit the pole winning an extremely memorable Game 6 for the Boston Red Sox in the bottom of the 12th inning.
Why the poles are called foul poles instead of fair poles, however, is a mystery of sporting semantics.
Congrats to vclough for making this FTF their first!
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