By: Austin Alexander – September 20, 2006
For those of you who have ever been there and spent considerable time in one, you may realize the importance of a baseball field’s dugout. Even if you’ve seen hundreds of great ballgames from the dugout, what remains with you in time are some of the zany things that are heard, seen or experienced while spending time “on the pine.” Many friendships are made, relationships formed and silly stories we never forget occur from this sacred area we affectionately refer to as the “dugout.”
If you’ve played this beautiful game for anytime at all, chances are you have struck out looking, laid down a sacrifice bunt and hit a homerun. Better yet, it’s likely you have also lost a ball in the sun, played “pepper” and been picked off base. When you spend a great deal of your childhood, college days and maybe even your adult life in baseball, you experience quite a few of its ups and downs. We have made a list of 130 things that happen to nearly every player who has ever had his named scratched into a line-up card, see how many have happened to you.