Signs of the Time (2008)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary explores how hand signals originated in baseball. It looks at different myths about how umpires, base coaches, and catchers started using gestures to communicate during games.
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What happens
Signs of the Time is a 60-minute American documentary film on the origin of hand signals in baseball. There are several myths in regard to how signals were started, and the film addresses some of the mysteries that led to umpires giving hand-signals to call plays in the field, base coaches to relay hand signals to players on the field, and catchers to relay hand signals to pitchers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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