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    Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat': SABR Digital Library, #34
    Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat': SABR Digital Library, #34
    Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat': SABR Digital Library, #34
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    Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat': SABR Digital Library, #34

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    The Simpsons and baseball. Since its debut in 1989 (that's back in the last century!), The Simpsons has run for 27 seasons and (back in 2009) became the longest-running American scripted primetime television series. Though it would be considered sacrilege in some circles, some might even see it as a national pastime of its own.

    The series has a long history with baseball and, in Season Three, the episode "Homer at the Bat" aired, on February 20, 1992. Co-editor Emily Hawks writes in her Introduction, "To see so many of the biggest MLB stars of the day in Simpsonian animated form — Ken Griffey Jr., Ozzie Smith, and Jose Canseco, just to name a few — seemed the most exciting thing in the world to this '90s kid. And the fact that they all lent their own voices to the parts seemed even cooler. It may have also been one of my first glimpses into baseball's early days. As a kid, I had no idea that Mr. Burns' dream squad — comprised of colorful names like Shoeless Joe Jackson, Pie Traynor, and Napoleon Lajoie — actually referenced real players. Those seemed like decidedly fabricated names to me!"

    They weren't. They were real ballplayers. And, one way or another, Simpsons writers have worked the names of 68 major-league ballplayers into one episode or another. Football's Joe Namath, Warren Sapp, and Johnny Unitas have appeared in shows. So have basketballers Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Yao Ming, and Dennis Rodman. Without doing exhaustive research, we believe there may be more baseball players than the other pro sports combined. 

    Some 27 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) have collaborated in Nuclear Powered Baseball to tell the stories of each player — past and present — featured in the classic Simpsons episode. The biographies compiled here take the players well beyond their two-dimensional caricatures, and present a well-rounded view of their lives in baseball. We've also included a few very entertaining takes on the now-famous "Homer at the Bat" episode from prominent baseball writers Jonah Keri, Erik Malinowski, and Bradley Woodrum. As an added bonus, we've also included Joe Posnanski's piece on the Season 22 sabermetric-themed episode, "MoneyBart." 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSociety for American Baseball Research
    Release dateFeb 28, 2019
    ISBN9781943816101
    Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat': SABR Digital Library, #34

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