I Learned To Hit With

I Think I Had The Smallest Handle Around. When I Got My Bats, I Even Trimmed Them Down. I Used To Scrape Them. Some Years Later When I Started Getting Older, I Used To Start With A 33 And In The Summer It Got Down To 31 And Then Probably In September Got Down To 30.

I Consciously Memorized The Speed At Which Every Pitcher In The League Threw His Fastball, Curve, And Slider; Then, I'd Pick Up The Speed Of The Ball In The First Thirty Feet Of Its Flight And Knew How It Would Move Once It Had Crossed The Plate.

Always Wanted To Be A Major League Player. Loved Baseball. Followed It. Loved To Play. Plus, I Could Always Hit.

There Is No One Correct Way To Bat, And So Of Course There Is No One Correct Stance For It.

A Lot Of Hitters Stay Away From The Plate, Some Are Close Up, Some Are Forward, Some Are Back. The Thing About Hitting Is This: You Have To Know The Strike Zone. That's The Most Important Thing. Hit Strikes And Put The Bat On The Ball.