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...single heft if his bat is minutely out of order. Williams once lifted six bats, one by one, then unhesitatingly picked out the weapon that was a half-ounce heavier than the others. Carew sent a recent shipment of bats back to Hillerich & Bradsby, maker of the famed Louisville Slugger. His exasperated explanation: "Every one was the wrong weight, and the handles were all too big." Interpretation: the wood was not shaved within the proper tiny fraction of an inch of perfection. Like all the other great hitters, Carew scrupulously cares for his bats. He bathes them with alcohol, removing...
Reggie Jackson, the great slugger, who is a new Yankee, pounded a home run and then avoided teammates who wanted to shake his hand. "It's not good here," Jackson said...
Wahoo Sam, perhaps the game's greatest slugger before the advent of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, put it best when he said a few years ago, "And still they don't give him a tumble for the Hail of Fame. It's not right...
...diversity, a mood of good fellowship seemed to prevail. Said one celebrated Atlantan, Baseball Slugger Hank Aaron, on Inauguration Eve: "Tomorrow at noon, the war between the North and the South is truly over." Remarked British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Ramsbotham on viewing his first Inauguration: "There is a great feeling of reconciliation. Such extraordinary good humor...
Ever since Abner Doubleday paced off the first diamond, the horsehide and Louisville slugger have remained in their pristine state, although the introduction of the rabbit ball prompted a cascade of vitriol from Ring Lardner and his contemporaries. Basketball has altered little since Dr. Naismith tacked up his peach basket, and the essential changes in football have come in strategy...