by George E. Phair<\/strong><\/p>\n How dear to my heart was the old-fashioned batter, who scattered line drives from the spring to the fall.<\/p>\n He did not resemble the up-to-date batter, who swings from the heels and misses the ball.<\/p>\n The up-to-date batter, I\u2019m not very strong for; he shatters the ozone with all of his might.<\/p>\n And that is the reason I hanker and long for \u2013<\/p>\n Those who doubled to left, and tripled to right.<\/p>\n The old-fashioned batter,<\/p>\n The eagle-eyed batter,<\/p>\n The thinking-man’s batter,<\/p>\n Who tripled to right.<\/p>\n This poem sums up my feelings about the dumbed-down, strikeout-and-launch-angle-infested approach to baseball offense (and it IS offensive): The Old-Fashioned Batter by George E. Phair How dear to my heart was the old-fashioned batter, who […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-haughts-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jhbatdude.jpeg\")
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