Summers in the mid-70s were spent at home shooting baskets, hitting a baseball, or throwing a football, preparing for my future as a quarterback on a football team.

70年代中期的夏天，我在家里投篮、打棒球或投橄榄球，为我将来成为橄榄球队的四分卫做准备。

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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?

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That's roughly the equivalent of going a month in baseball hitting .500.

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