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Article: `TRUE' STRIKE ZONE THING OF THE PAST.(Sports)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 10, 1996 ;     700+ words ......a matter of record that the official strike zone has been altered for the 1996 season...about its application. Specifically, the strike zone has been lowered. It has been extended...love it, but we'll see.'' The current strike zone is a curious thing. Accompanying the...

Article: STRIKE ZONE HAS BECOME BASEBALL'S TWILIGHT ZONE.(SPORTS)
The Virginian Pilot;  June 8, 1997 ;     515 words ......The answer: major league baseball's strike zone. Three-and-a-half-hour games. Home run...of the TV. Attribute them all to the strike zone, which is less obvious than a tax man...existence - if only barely - of a dwarfish strike zone. The other night, as an 8 1/2-inning...

Article: Commentary: Baseball's decision to follow the rule book and enforce the strike zone rule
NPR Morning Edition;  March 28, 2001 ;     595 words ......follow the rule book and enforce the strike zone rule Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time: 11:00...talk in the off-season concerned the strike zone. Commentator Frank Deford says it's...situation for years in which the baseball strike zone has not been real. It has, instead...

Article: The Strike Zone Scores a Double Play With New Facility in Glenview; Baseball and Softball Academy Offer Local Youth the Largest Practice Area and the Largest Number of Specialized Instructors on the North Shore.
PR Newswire;  February 10, 2003 ;     345 words ......CHICAGO, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Strike Zone, the leader in professional baseball...years after opening in Wilmette, The Strike Zone will unveil a new 12,000 square foot...instructors, said John Fix, owner of The Strike Zone. As the oldest baseball and softball...

Article: There is no zone in sports as confounding as the strike zone.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 2, 1995 ;     688 words ......misunderstood, as that nether zone known as the strike zone. It is the most obvious thing wrong...in major-league baseball today. The strike zone is too small, it is too low, and it...fight. Baseball needs to standardize the strike zone, and it needs to tell its umpires, sternly...

Article: A widely exaggerated strike zone
Sporting News;  August 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ......knee high (top and bottom limits of the strike zone). "Attach two very light strings to...stands, the strings create a visible strike zone in the pitcher's mind. Pitching to the...device that gave tangible shape to the strike zone. Hundreds of Dodgers pitched to those...

Article: A hollow solution: The enlarged strike zone might speed up games, but first the umpires have to buy into it
Sporting News;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......baseball's weird experiment with the strike zone is doomed to meaninglessness. Umpires...substitutions -- were responsible. The strike zone variable could be discounted because...offense are implicit in an enlarged strike zone. Hitters would have to be less selective...

Article: A PROPER STRIKE ZONE.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  April 2, 2001 ;     683 words ......is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone as defined in the rulebook. What a concept...the vagaries of reform. The ''new'' strike zone was actually defined years ago when...Through most of the 20th century the strike zone was defined as a rectangle extending...

Article: Mixed reviews for revised strike zone.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ......baseball's attempts to standardize the strike zone by having umpires enforce it the way...reason for requiring umpires to call the strike zone by the book was to eliminate inconsistencies...it was imperative to have a uniform strike zone. A by-product of baseball's mandate...

Article: YOU'VE JUST ENTERED THE `STRIKE ZONE'
Sun Publications (IL);  April 28, 1999 ;     427 words ......in Major League Baseball. How is the strike zone and how the rules enforcing it at the...umpire 300 to 500 games to understand the strike zone and get in the groove of seeing the...hitters have two strikes, I tell them the strike zone has expanded. Home plate is 17 inches...

Article: Changes for MLB Strike Zone
AP Online;  March 14, 2001 ;     302 words ......03-14-2001 Changes for MLB Strike Zone ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- There...was general manager of the Oakland Athletics that he didn't mind a little inconsistency of the strike zone. ``When you're with a club...

Article: Hitters must adapt to adjusted strike zone
Post-Tribune (IN);  April 6, 2001 ;     588 words ......league baseball's newly created high strike zone is creating confusion among hitters...consistency is the major problem. "The strike zone is everywhere,'' Pentland said. "It...Older veterans have had a certain strike zone for a long time,'' Pentland said. "Then...

Article: The Strike Zone Restored
The Washington Post;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone as defined in the rulebook. What a concept...about the vagaries of reform. The "new" strike zone was actually defined years ago when...Through most of the 20th century the strike zone was defined as a rectangle extending...

Article: New strike zone should be a lesson.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ......another lockout. But it's significant. The strike zone is the instrument of measurement for...game. Now, after years of watching the strike zone shrink to the size of a laptop computer...higher, tighter strikes, enlarging the strike zone as it was originally intended and forcing...