My high school coach complained every time my teammates and I hit a fly ball. He had a temper, and would berate us in the dugout for stupidly hitting the ball in the air. He taught us a level swing that generated line drives or, almost as good, ground balls. There was probably nothing quite […]
Day: March 15, 2017
AG Spalding And The Birth Of America’s Game
For decades, baseball has been known as America’s Game, and many young fans have been raised reciting the 1975 Chevrolet commercial that placed baseball in the American pantheon with apple pie and hot dogs. In 1889, concerning this connection, Walt Whitman wrote, “it’s our game: that’s the chief fact in connection with it: America’s game: […]