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Game's progressive past

By Rob Neyer
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Baseball certainly must rank as the most conservative of the major team sports. Whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of taste, I suppose. But there certainly have been some radical changes over the years, and below are a few of the highlights: 1887: Platooning Platooning generally refers to the practice of assigning one position to two players: a left-handed hitter to face right-handed pitchers, and a right-handed hitter to face left-handed pitchers. According to Bil ...

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