The Top Three Bases In Baseball

Over the past few months, Sports Riot has received hundreds of thousands of requests asking us to tackle the polarizing topic of ranking the top three bases in baseball. After months of diligent research and testing, we can now reveal the Top Three Bases In Baseball: Present Day Edition

#3) First Base – Yes, it’s technically only 90-feet away from home, and yes, there’s always a huge guy hanging around who won’t stop talking the entire time you’re there, but it’s a league consensus that first base is the third best base in baseball. For starters, the base comes with an inbuilt sense of progress in life, even if you only got there by getting beaned in the solar plexus. Plus, it offers an unparalleled view of the pitcher’s mound and features plenty of lead-off space. What other base can say it has that?

#2) Third Base – The most braggadocious base of them all, third base definitely lets you know when you’ve arrived in its presence. Besides being the most aesthetically pleasing base in the entire ballpark, third base is also said to provide hitters with a real sense of self worth – constantly reminding them that they’re now within walking distance of a run. Not to mention, if you’re one of the lucky few to experience third base as the result of a stand up triple, you know that paradise is a feeling, as well as a place. A place called third base.

#1) Vandenberg Air Force Base – Located right next to a real place called Surf Beach, this ocean-side base has everything a baseball fan could ever want. Under the stewardship of Col. Anthony J. Mastalir, the base has helped many a hitter reach dinger nirvana, with big fly after big fly being routinely blasted into space the moment it comes off a bat and attaches itself to a nearby Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. If you’re ever in the neighborhood or one day end up playing ball for the armed services, be sure to check this base off your baseball bucket list.

Honorable Mention: Second Base – Overrated? Yes. The furthest from home? Yes. Worth experiencing at least once in your life? Debatable. As many ex-second basemen have told us, “it’s hard being nothing more than a midpoint.”