Posted on 05/26/2014 4:49:52 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
The future of bat retrieval in baseball is finally here.
During this year's ACC baseball tournament, someone had the terrific idea of replacing the bat boy with a bat dog. The dog in the Instagram video above is Miss LouLou Gehrig, the bat dog of the Single-A Greensboro Grasshoppers.
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They’ll never know if they’ve been bad. They’ll just go fetch a bat when you tell them “bad dog!”.
The union is NOT amused ....
With that being said, dogs fetching bats is what Americana baseball should be about.........
You'll never get me down to Comerica Park in Detroit again so get me a minor league team in my area that is typically family friendly and I'll be a regular.........
With that being said, dogs fetching bats is what Americana baseball should be about.........
You'll never get me down to Comerica Park in Detroit again so get me a minor league team in my area that is typically family friendly and I'll be a regular.........
LouLou Gehrig. Now that’s cute!
For several years, the Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League had a bat-retrieving dog named Chase the Thunder Dog. They actually had a ceremony for Chase when he died.
The bat dog for the Greensboro Grasshoppers is and has been for 6 or 7 years Miss Babe Ruth. Miss LouLou is the understudy. They also deliver the fresh balls.
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