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...think honestly, a lot of it’s pitch selection,” said Salsgiver, who raised his average to a blistering .393 during the year. His on-base percentage ballooned to .480. “You wait for your good fastball, stay back, get good pitches, and hit them...
...pitched like a senior should pitch,” Brown said. “When he hit a rough patch, he just blew right through...
Vultaggio found his next business, iced tea, through his most trusted adviser: his gut. On a frigid February day in 1990, a Snapple delivery truck interrupted his sales pitch with a lower Manhattan store owner. "I'm knocking myself out trying to get a five-case order of beer, and this guy is taking 100 iced teas," Vultaggio says. "What am I doin'? I said, I gotta go into the tea business." That was his million-dollar focus group. "Yeah, I was focusing," he says. "Wow, that...
...best. Barry Bonds stands up there. When's the last time Barry Bonds was knocked on his ass? Never ... The owners can save millions of dollars--take the pitcher off the mound and put up a tee. 'Cause what they're playing is tee ball. They pitch around him. If I was going to pitch around him, I would have saved four and just put one in his rib cage. You want to go to first? We'll do it easy...
...aged man who may be clinging too closely to the past. "The saddest thing to me," says ESPN commentator Skip Bayless (who has called Gossage a "throw-hard blowhard"), is "the ex-athlete who can't let go." Gossage's rank dismissal of the talent ("The pitchers can't pitch") and fortitude ("The game is getting really soft") of today's players, as well as the character of younger baseball writers ("They don't have any respect for the game"), is destructive nostalgia, experts say. "If you look back, far into history, there is evidence of people having this tendency...