Reply to "Things you did as a kid to improve before the advent of lessons"

fenwaysouth10,000+ posts

@smokeminside posted:
I forgot to mention that after reading Jim Bouton's Ball Four during the summer before my 9th grade year, I practiced swearing like a major leaguer. A lot.
If that had mattered as much as hitting, I'd be in the Hall of Fame.

You and I weren't the only ones. Everybody on my Pony League field was swearing like a major leaguer because of Ball Four. I probably took it a little too far as I was known as a chatty-foul mouthed catcher back in my day. My verbal creativity would be unappreciated on a baseball diamond today. Everybody loved Ball Four back in the mid-70s. There were a lot of new words to use and put into practice.

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