He believes, as all too many parents and their children do in real life, that the quality of an education can be measured like a baseball batting average or the carats in a diamond ring.
He was the All-Star game MVP in July and currently has the second highest batting average in all of baseball.
Baseball's batting stars often struggle during the post-season because they are pitched around or struggle from the burden of trying to do too much.
But then he noticed that as his time for weights lessened with the demands of the baseball season, his batting swing became freer and faster.
And indeed, Musial played most of his prime seasons before 1952, winning six of his seven batting titles during an era in which baseball was not yet fully integrated.
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If I were a baseball player, a .430 batting average would put me in the Hall of Fame.
Under section 10.22(a) of the Official Baseball Rules, he would win the batting title if an extra hitless at-bat is added to his average and it remained higher than that of any other qualifying player.
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Major League Baseball's all-time leader in batting average (.366), Cobb was nicknamed the Georgia Peach and renowned for competing with such ferocity that he toed the line between fair and dirty play.
New York 1B Mark Teixeira (wrist) hit several long homers on curveballs off a pitching machine at the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa, Fla. 3B Alex Rodriguez, coming back from hip surgery in January, is hitting off a tee and swinging at soft toss flips in a batting cage as he wraps up his second week of baseball activities.
Teixeira had a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist, sustained while taking batting practice with the U.S. at the World Baseball Classic on March 5.
Given a warm ovation before he walked leading off the second inning, Teixeira had a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist, sustained while taking batting practice with the U.S. at the World Baseball Classic on March 5.
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Spring is here and that means baseball, which means statistics, including hits and homers, batting average, RBI--and salaries.
Second baseman Robinson Cano was back on the field with the Yankees after leading the Dominican Republic to the championship of the World Baseball Classic and Lopez greeted him with a big hug near the batting cage.
Baseball's career saves leader was hurt while shagging fly balls during batting practice in Kansas City on May and had surgery June 12 to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
Sporting an unorthodox, corkscrew-style batting stance, he finished with 3, 630 hits, the fourth-most in baseball history, and drove in 1, 951 runs, the sixth-most ever.
When they watch baseball practice, they often see them standing around in the outfield while the coach throws batting practice.
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The Moneyball era in baseball values on-base percentage more than it used to, while devaluing stolen bases and batting average.
Leading the bunch is Minnesota's Justin Morneau, whose .342 batting average, 18 homers and 1.056 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) makes him baseball's most productive player during the first half of 2010.
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