What is a station to station carrer in baseball?
You know the world of baseball would not be content unless they could fluster the ever-loving daylights out of us by using a confuising term for simple plays. Depending on where you look or whom you speak with, station-to-station can mean several different things. In this context, it is simply referring to his base-to-base career number of steals. In other words, during his professional career, he has stolen base 35 times now. Don’t you wish they would just use plain old English!!! Considering that in 1982 Rickey Henderson had reached 130 stolen bases, 35 doesn’t seem “all that” Of course, if you want to really talk about stollen bases lets go all the way back to 1887, when baseball was in its infancy at about 30 years old*. (Actually British form of baseball started back in the 1700’s). Hugh Nicol of the Cincinnati Red Stockings (the first Professional baseball team) stole 138 bases. *Semiprofessional baseball started in the United States in the 1860s; in 1869, the first fully profess
