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I thought it was generally regarded as a myth that using aluminum bats had a negative impact on hitters when they switched to wooden bats in pro leagues. I can't remember who it was (James maybe?) but someone wrote an article about how part of the homerun-jump in baseball was being fueled by hitters learning to do things with aluminum bats that everyone always said you couldn't, and then applying those techniques to wooden bats and finding that they worked (i.e. getting jammed and crushing the ball anyway, slamming the outside pitch into the opposite field, etc).
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"I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses."
-- Tom House
"I was very fortunate to have a pitching coach by the name of Tom House...Tom, I really miss those days that we spent in the weight room and out on the field working together."
-- Nolan Ryan's HoF Induction Speech
Last edited by Jason Moyer; 08-31-2007 at 08:53 PM.
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