Wanted to sneak this "Hitting" blurb into this record setting hitting thread.
Am reading a great book and the author has said his guru was Casey Stengel. This commentary is from Casey:
Let me show you what a smart man I was. We're playing the Cardinals and they got this kid, just up from the minors at the end of the year. I know all about his record and how he's supposed to be a great left-handed hitter and all. But he's a kid. And I know how it is with kids, they can all hit fastballs, but they can't hit the soft stuff, because they've just come from the minors and who's down there that's a good experienced pitcher and knows how to mix it up, right? So he's been looking at fastballs and wild men and now I tell my pitcher, don't worry about it, just give him those little soft curves and he'll break his back swinging at it---and he hit two singles and two doubles off my pitcher, and that's when I figured out this Mr. Musial was a pretty good hitter whether he was young and had seen pitching or not!