Known as "The Human Rain Delay", Hargrove would infuriate opposing pitchers with his twitchy, obsessive and excessively long batters box routines. Before every pitch, Hargrove would step out of ...

but before baseball embraced a culture of delay over the last couple of decades, they were the norm. In the 1970s and ’80s, when Mike Hargrove was “the human rain delay,” it was a charming ...