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[crazyjoedavola]

"Inside the park" homerun....pretty sweet!

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Originally Posted by crazyjoedavola

"Inside the park" homerun....pretty sweet!

What era are you playing in?
I noticed recently, in my current long time historical (with recalc off/TCR 125 and coaching and personality driving development on) a lack of inside park HRs in recent times, but i distinctly remember them being not super rare occurrences until the late 1950's. I really have no knowledge of baseball history - so I'm unsure how common or inside the park homers were/are, and how they may have fluctuated over the years as strategy and tactics evolved.

[crazyjoedavola]

i am in 2045 of modern mlb save

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Originally Posted by crazyjoedavola

i am in 2045 of modern mlb save

OK, I am guessing that's probably unicorn territory by that year then

[Pelican]

It is hard to distinguish, but anecdotally many home runs during the Deadball Era were what we would call inside-the-park home runs. The stadiums were huge, with fences so far back in CF that balls just kept rolling. When you look at the stadium dimensions, it isn't hard to imagine.

Statistically, a home run is a home run. But as far as the narrative and the visual depiction, many/most of those home runs before 1920 should be inside-the-park. And they should be less common, rare, in contemporary sims. With the shorter distances and higher fences today, it takes a special combination of a fast, aggressive hitter/runner and some odd bounces (or clumsy fielding) to yield an inside-the-park home run.

Also today the modern stadiums don't have those odd protruding bits or grassy hills to confuse the outfielders. The only inside-the-park home run I saw live was hit by Johnny Callison of the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium, more than fifty years ago (I was a little kid; but I remember because he was my favorite player). The long fly to RF landed on a kind of catwalk at the base of the scoreboard and bounced up in the air, still in play. The outfielders waved at the ball but could not reach it. Callison, who was still fast, easily circled the bases. My Dad had to explain what had happened.

[Sweed]

I once had a walk off grand slam inside the park HR in OOTP 24.

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ghlight=inside