Posted by: Patrick (pmgeoeiiee@yahoo.com) on Wed Oct 13 16:37:41 2010

This all started with Shoeless Joe Jackson. From the time babe ruth saw him swing, hitting has never been the same. Then all the others started to emulate Ruth. Hornsby...Foxx...Dimaggio...Williams.... But no one has truly emulated Williams to this day. He was the last to combine avg and power for such an extended period of time. Only once did he dip below .300 during his MLB career and only 3 times did he ever hit below .300 at all. Now we're in 2010. Albert Pujols is the closet thing we have these days to that adformentioned combination. But who will hit .400 again? It seems like history is waiting patiently for the next one but the time period we're in is stubborn to let this person through. But if we are to truly know the history of hitting, we must understand what we don't see and learn things we are afraid to learn. "Most hitting faults come down to a lack of knowledge uncertainy and fear."-Rogers Hornsby "You, the hitter, are the greatest varaiable in this game because to know yourself takes dedication. Today that's a hard thing to have. In the old days we didn't fly. We rode the train. We might be ten, twelve hours on the train talking about hitting. The guys I played for and with inspired that kind of thing. Rogers hornsby waa like that. I suppose the players in Washington would say I was like that...I experimented, I swapped bats. I was forever trying to hit like Greenburg, or Foxx, or somebody else and then going back to my old way. I recommended that for kids. Try what you see looks good on somebody else. A bigger bat, a bigger barrel anything."- T.S.W.