Once upon a time, bullpen carts were all the rage. Catching on in the mid 1960s, they made sure no relief pitcher would have to touch his feet to the ground when traveling from the bullpen to the mound. They eventually went out of style, as most fads do, and disappeared altogether in 1995.
But the Arizona Diamondbacks aren’t content to let history be history. The franchise is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2018, and have decided to bring back this beloved baseball artifact part of the festivities.
That is definitely a bullpen cart. And it’s even got that classic look! The body is shaped like a hollowed out baseball, and the baseball is wearing a giant hat — because why wouldn’t a baseball wear a hat? — and two bats are holding up the brim at the front of the cart.
The cart on its own is amazing, but somehow that’s not even the best part. The Dbacks as a franchise are too young to have ever had a bullpen cart. The Milwaukee Brewers had the last bullpen cart in baseball (it was actually a motorcycle with a sidecar), and they stopped using it after the 1995 season. The Diamondbacks weren’t founded until 1998. They missed out on the bullpen cart craze the first time around, and now they’re making up for it.
The Diamondbacks are bringing back the bullpen cart
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The Diamondbacks are bringing back the bullpen cart, everyone rejoice
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If the cubs get one it can just be a wheelbarrow as the pen is about 5’ off the field up the line.