>>>My pet peeve about baseball culture is that players don't shake hands after the game. Does not look good, IMHO.
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>>Well, I think the pace of them game (and so many in a season) might have something to do with that.
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>>I think it would be good for them to do it at the end of a playoff series (as they do in hockey), so you have a point.
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>No time to shake hands even after the last of World Series? The image of baseball players in my mind is "sore losers."
>In hockey, football, boxing, any other sports where they try to kill each other, they wipe the blood from their faces and shake hands afterwards. Not baseball players. It is a shame.

In some cases, individual players will shake hands. And sometimes players will visit each other in the clubhouse afterwards.

But it's not a formality.

What makes the NHL's hand-shaking at the end of a playoff series so special is because of how much they're trying to beat up and wear down the other team over the course of 7-10 days.