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“If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.” – from the book Blink (2005) by Malcolm Gladwell As players and coaches, sometimes we don’t recognize what’s likely to happen on the baseball field until it actually does. It’s … Continue reading
“People think I’m smart? You know what makes you smart? Locate your fastball down and away. That’s what makes you smart. You talk to Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, or Tom Seaver. They’ll all tell you the same thing. It’s not your arm that makes you a great pitcher. It’s that thing between both of your … Continue reading
“The great pitchers are the ones who work the count in their favor and put the batter in a hole. There are twelve possible ball and strike counts. Out of those twelve there is one that seems neutral – the first pitch – with five in favor of the pitcher and six in favor of … Continue reading
“You must forget the last game and the last inning and the last batter, because there is not a thing that you can do about them. The only batter you can get is the one standing up there at the plate with the bat in his hand. You can have the strongest arm in the … Continue reading
“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.” – Sandy Koufax (pitcher for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers 1955-1966: 1963 NL MVP; 1963, 1965, and 1966 Cy Young Award Winner; inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame 1972) A pitcher has … Continue reading
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any … Continue reading
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