José Ramírez and Tim Anderson's showdown had all the makings of an all-time brawl, including an all-time broadcaster call and some uncharacteristic violence. It was a throwback to a bygone era, writes rustindodd. Why have baseball brawls disappeared?
; and some uncharacteristic violence, at least as baseball brawls are concerned. The right hook that downed Anderson was an outlier, yet to those in uniform, it also felt like a throwback to a different era, when brawls felt like a more regular fixture on the calendar.“I was a part of some totally vicious fights that nobody remembers,” former pitcher Bronson Arroyo says.
“Well, we don’t have steroids and we don’t have greenies,” Fasano says. “There’s a lot less fights now.”Baseball players, of course, are prone to nostalgia, and the art of the baseball brawl has been subject to skepticism for decades. Inpitcher Jim Bouton, brawls were described as “20 or 30 guys mostly pulling and shoving each other,” the pile of bodies so high that the two men who started it “couldn’t reach for a subway token, much less fight.
“Most of the time we get in a fight, it’s just a big autograph session,” says Fasano, who now serves as catching coach for theYet there are reasons, players and managers say, why genuine brawls have become more isolated in recent years. The eye-for-an-eye ethos that prevailed among managers for decades has receded in the baseball culture. Retaliatory pitches are now seen as gauche.
The Yankees’ Graig Nettles and the Royals’ George Brett fight during Game 5 of the 1977 American League Championship Series. When George Brett and Graig Nettles brawled during the deciding Game 5 of the 1977 ALCS, both players dusted themselves off and stayed in the game. When the
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