But Stan the Man was famous, not for earning more than the President (like Babe Ruth), marrying Marilyn Monroe (like Joe DiMaggio), spitting on fans (like Ted Williams) or going on epic benders (like Mickey Mantle), but for hitting a baseball.
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So, then: what if a paid professional became so good at that supposedly most difficult of all things hitting a pitched baseball that no one else really wanted to play against him?
That's roughly the equivalent of going a month in baseball hitting .500.
Like a superstitious baseball player who wears the same pair of socks on a long hitting streak, we tend to do the same things over and over in our businesses.
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Whether it's the Dow hitting a new all-time high or a baseball player poised to reach the top of the home run list, we love to focus on the new big number.
In the film Trouble With the Curve, Clint Eastwood plays a long-time baseball scout for the Atlanta Braves who discovers a high-school hitting sensation.
Even the National League is no longer home to a style of baseball that values speed and contact hitting over hacking and hoping for the long ball, he says.
Some even questioned whether his slender frame, hitting mechanics and unusual stance could lead him to a career as a professional baseball player.
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And as much as I was already aware of his legendary status, it really hit home the time I decided to do a piece on steroids in baseball in 2004, when the issue was just hitting the fan.
The older Mr. Halman led a recent wave of Europeans signed to play professional baseball in the U.S. At 16, he was already built like a man and hitting deep homeruns in the Netherlands's semi-professional league.
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.
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