Kids grin at his knowledge and he grins back.
Don mattingly swing gif.
The mlb season hangs in the balance because the miami marlins decided to handle multiple postivie covid 19 test via an internal text message.
Mickey mantle is a guy who has recently gotten my attention because of his disproportionate power.
I ll see if it s online anywhere.
Conversely wade boggs followed the charlie lau school of hitting which i don t think that williams was too fond of.
1zeca5e gif the first part of that clip was the swing mattingly was teaching.
The second part is a graphic made from his actual swing to form his company s logo.
Don mattingly s number 23 was retired by the new york yankees in 1997.
Mattingly finished his career with 2 153 hits 222 home runs 1 007 runs scored 1 099 rbi and a 307 lifetime average.
It was a very interesting read.
I remember reading an interview that dick schaap had with williams mattingly and boggs back in the 80 s.
Ted williams was an admirer of don mattingly s swing.
Don mattingly 53 he machine guns into the air before anyone in the section has a chance to answer.
Perhaps swinging down was a cue that was useful to him but in practice his swing had the same slight uppercut that you see from most major league swings.
He is commonly cited as the best yankee player to have never played in a world series.
He was a non gigantic guy just 5 11 who managed to hit some of the longest home runs in history while some of that was due to an aggressive swing and great hand eye coordination it was also due to mickey mantle s swing and its combination of extreme simplicity and efficiency.
Mattingly who ended his career with a 307 lifetime batting average and was the 1985 al mvp developed a swing that he believed was based on a solid foundation and that incorporated five steps.