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Old 10-05-2006, 12:08 PM   #102
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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua
The thing that always got me, in high school or little league, isn't the ace pitcher usually the best hitter on the team too. And you see it a lot in college too. Every year in the CWS there are a number of ace pitchers who DH on their off days. So what happens to these guys between boyhood stardom and big league stardom?
Isn't that the same case in a lot of professions? Engineering jobs are a lot like that. College engineering students are jack of all trades, and whoever good at one subject are often good at others too. Nobody does it all at the "big league" level either.
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