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Maybe that explains why none of the great sluggers since has been able to attain the titanic grace--unalloyed by sadness and while he still had time to enjoy it. At the bottom of the Depression, Lou Gehrig got there, but had to be wheeled in on his deathbed. Ted Williams, Depression slugger and war hero, wasn't fully enrolled until he retired. Joe DiMaggio made it into our hearts only at the grave of his beloved Marilyn. Mays: another retirement entry. Mantle: another deathbed...
Chalk it up to maturity. At 29, in his 10th major league season, the unusually lean slugger has learned that discipline at the plate can be just as valuable as brute strength. His raw skills were never in question (he has belted 36 or more dingers in each of the past three years), but his judgment needed seasoning. "A few years ago, I was trying to do too much," he says. "I'd go to the home plate with no idea and swing at everything...
MICKEY MANTLE FBI kept a file on the Yankee slugger. Did Hoover hope "switch hitter" meant something else...
...apology, while ambiguous, seems to admit to some wrongdoing. Yet after a quick deliberation last week, a jury of Vaughn's fans, er, peers, returned with a "not guilty" verdict, allowing Vaughn to hop the next flight to spring training and resume his place as the team's leading slugger. Since he had hit only an empty parked car and didn't do any personal damage, except perhaps to his reputation, most Boston fans would rather forgive Vaughn for his transgression and return him to the batter's box. No harm, no foul (unless the Sox don't make...
...asylum, Irabu was welcomed by his new teammates. "Hey, what's up, man?" third baseman Charlie Hayes said upon meeting Irabu. "He's a big old boy," said Cecil Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu...