Book description
âBaseballâs last .400 hitter share[s] his secrets in this primer still used at all levels of the game.â âPaul Dickson, author of Bill Veeck: Baseballâs Greatest Maverick
Now fully revised with new illustrations and diagrams, the classicâand still the greatestâbook on hitting from the last baseball player to break theâŚ
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1 author picked The Science of Hitting as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Warren Buffet cites Ted Williamsâ plate discipline as his model for investment selection, and I keep a copy of this book on my shelf with its image of Williamsâ strike zone prominently displayed.
Williams was the last major league baseball player to hit over .400 in a season and his insight was that not all strikes are created equal.
He identified the granular, baseball-sized quadrants within the strike zone that represented his âsweet spotâ and he maintained supreme discipline to avoid all other pitches.
Of course, baseball is a team sport, not an individual sport, and Williamsâ rigid plate disciplineâŚ
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