Sunday, May 12, 2013
Washington Post: Kilgore: A Swing of Beauty
(www.washingtonpost.com)
posted 2 weeks ago by The Yankee Clapper to babe ruth, bryce harper, great baseball players, hitting, washington nationals
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Schu scanned through video and found film of Harper hitting. He arranged clips of Harper and Ruth side-by-side on the monitor and stopped at the moment each hitter’s bat connected with a pitch. In each still picture, he saw a stiff front leg, an uncoiling torso and a back foot lifting off the ground. “Wow,” he thought. “That’s identical.”
“They’ve got that exact same swing at contact point,” Schu said later.
The Kid may need to put on some weight.
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1. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong posted on October 17, 2012 at 02:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0i could name, oh, hmmmmm, maybe elebenteen
what a disappointment
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/sports/baseball/27tigers.html?_r=0
That was a lot of fun to go back and read!
That would have been a good villain. I think most of these choices were somewhat lame. I can see Denkinger/Twins Stadium/Jimmy Fallon....beyond that, the rest as mentioned were just people having a good series. That isn't a villain. A villain is someone who does an action (see Holliday's slide) that upsets the fanbase in some reason, it helps if they also then have a good series, but that isn't really necessary.
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