Will we ever again see the likes of these true-blue Power Hitters ?

[packs]

I agree with what you're saying too. I just hope baseball experiences a kind of renaissance in the near future. I can see football taking some kind of hit in the near future with the amount of information being released regarding head injuries. Every now and then you hear an ex-player talk about doing everything all over again and never playing football.

[peterb69]

Buck O'Neil quote:

I heard Ruth hit the ball. I'd never heard that sound before, and I was outside the fence but it was the sound of the bat that I had never heard before in my life. And the next time I heard that sound, I'm in Washington, D.C., in the dressing room and I heard that sound of a bat hitting the ball — sounded just like when Ruth hit the ball. I rushed out, got on nothing but a jockstrap, I rushed out — we were playing the Homestead Grays and it was Josh Gibson hitting the ball. And so I heard this sound again.

Now I didn't hear it anymore. I'm in Kansas City. I'm working for the Cubs at the time, and I was upstairs and I was coming down for the batting practice. And before I could get out there I heard this sound one more time that I had heard only twice in my life. Now, you know who this is? Bo Jackson. Bo Jackson swinging that bat. And now I heard this sound... And it was just a thrill for me. I said, here it is again. I heard it again. I only heard it three times in my life.

[tedzan]

Here is another Buck O'Neil quote:


Once Buck was asked....who is the greatest hitter that you have seen ?

Buck answered....Mickey Mantle would be the greatest, if he had been injury free.


TED Z