{"id":4720,"date":"2010-11-02T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2010-11-02T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:30:52","slug":"the-morning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4720","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dRogers Hornsby<\/p>\n

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For anyone not familiar with Rogers Hornsby – he was one of the greatest hitters of all time. Ponder this:<\/p>\n

Rogers Hornsby (April 27, 1896 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c January 5, 1963), nicknamed “The Rajah”.<\/p>\n

Hornsby was one of the best batters ever to play major league baseball. Along with Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb he took advantage of the new live ball to redefine major league hitting. These comments may seem to be exaggerations until one considers Hornsby’s records. <\/p>\n

He was the only player to win the National League Triple Crown twice. <\/p>\n

His career batting average of .358 is the highest in National League history, and also the highest in major league history for any right-handed hitter. His batting average for the 1924 season was .424, a mark that no player since has matched. He is the only member of the 40\u00e2\u20ac\u201c400 club\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhaving 40 or more home runs and batting .400 or more in the same season. <\/p>\n

Frankie Frisch once said of him, “Rogers Hornsby is the only man I ever knew who could hit .350, in the dark.”<\/p>\n

The Baseball Hall of Fame elected Hornsby in 1942. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201dRogers Hornsby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}