In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by baserunners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four runs—the most possible in one play.
Roger Connor is believed to have been the first major league player to hit a grand slam, on September 10, 1881, for the Troy Trojans.
And now for a spot of Reminiscing from our in-house historian Keith 'Dez' sharing an extract from his soon to be published memoirs "View from the Martian Dugout"
"A lot of dominoes have got to line up to achieve a grand slam home run and I'm not sure that I remember ever seeing one.
One of my funniest memories of the great game though revolves around a grand slam 'near miss'. It was during the 1986 VPBL carnival in Ballarat when Colac baseballer Schrammy came to the plate with bases loaded and pretty ordinary pitcher on the mound.
Schrammy had never hit a carnival grand slam and was dying to do so. As he stood in the batting box, salivating at the prospect of achieving a career long dream, the pitcher stared down at him ... and balked!
It was hilarious and the whole Colac bench split their sides laughing. It was about that time that Schrammy did something that's probably never been seen during a baseball game - a member of the batting team complaining to the umpire that the pitcher hadn't balked."
stay tuned throughout the series for more of Keiths anecdotes and Reminiscings.