8th Inning - Myths and Legends Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 5/10/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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8th in a series of baseball themed caches.

Find all the caches in the series and collect the clues to the final.

Please exercise proper stealth when searching for and replacing the cache.

The cache is not located at the posted coordinates.

These coordinates will put you on Home Plate


"You might be a redneck if you think the last words to the Star Spangled Banner are 'Play Ball'" - Comedian Jeff Foxworthy


Americans have played baseball almost as long as they have been Americans. Lewis and Clark played catch during their trek to the Pacific, and men organized the first game just outside of Brooklyn as congress debated a fugitive slave law. The game quickly grabbed the nation, and game scores dotted newspapers beside news of Sherman's march through Georgia.

Yet even from baseball's very beginnings, Americans never saw it as just a game. Uniquely American, baseball would soon become the National Pastime. "Like everything else American it came with a rush," 1870s star baseball player John Montgomery Ward wrote. "The game is suited to the national temperament". The romanticization of baseball, however, was by no means confined to its players. It is the game of our national poets. Whitman wrote of it as did Frost. The game has enraptured presidents and paupers, robber-barons and radicals, and it has kept its resonance through many decades of change.

In the almost two hundred years of baseball's existence, Americans have packed baseball with so many of their most profound and cherished beliefs that the game itself came to represent a sacred American belief. As the nation drifted away from its Jeffersonian ideals--abandoning the farm and crowding into cities, using and abusing capitalism to achieve material wealth at the cost of fair play, and suffering through defeat and poverty--the baseball field marked a small area where such dreams seemed possible once more.

T     F
1     3     It is possible for a Pitcher to record 4 or more strikeouts in one inning.
2     8     It is possible for a Pitcher to record a no hitter and still lose the game.
4     1     In extra innings, the rule changes to four foul balls and your out.
1     2     The New York Yankees are the oldest professional baseball team.
7     6     Teams in the American League may forfeit the right to use a Designated Hitter.
9     2     Babe Ruth began his career as a pitcher for The Boston Red Sox.
7     9     For a home run to count the Hitter only has to touch 1st base.
9     1     Dock Ellis once pitched a no hitter while underthe influence of LSD.
3     2     The Baseball Hall of Fame is located in Cooperstown, NY.
1     8     Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball in Cooperstown, NY
4     2     If a pitcher touches his mouth on the mound, it constitutes a balk.
1     8     Roger Maris still holds the American League record for the most home runs in a season with 61.
1     3     If a batted ball hits home plate it is automatically a foul ball.
0     1     When a play occurs at a base, the tie goes to the runner.
5     4     Jackie Robinson was the first black player in Major League Baseball.
Find all the caches in the series and collect the clues to the Final Cache:

Extra Innings - The Walk Off
9th Inning - In the Movies
8th Inning - Myths and Legends
7th Inning Stretch
7th Inning - Enduring Streaks
6th Inning - The Lingo
5th Inning - Statistics
4th Inning - Nicknames
3rd Inning - The Hall of Fame
2nd Inning - The rules of the Game
1st Inning - Who's on First?

Disclaimer: All statstics and rules are based on Major League Baseball and are current as of the date of this cache placement, unless noted otherwise.

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