Word: hitterish
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Though Joyner failed to make the team, Jackson could quickly see that besides being bright and a little droll, he was "hitterish," and Reggie's interest extended to sending Joyner bats and calling him in Edmonton (home of the AAA Trappers). Again Joyner accumulated only a dozen homers for the season, but proceeding directly to a winter league in Puerto Rico, the smoothest left-hand swinger on the island hit 14 more in 54 games. Without a break, he continued on to the major leagues...
...also holds the National League strike-out record (17 in one game), wound up his flamboyant career with 150 victories, 83 losses. After his pitching days were cut short by an injury in 1937, Diz turned to sports announcing, enriched the language with such phrases as "slud" and "hitterish...
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