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Throwback.(Mike Hampton, a rare pitcher who can hit)(includes information on other hitting pitchers)(Statistical Data Included)
Mike Hampton's Hitting Reminiscent of An Earlier Generation of Pitchers
AS JOE TORRE WATCHED HIS pitchers take a few tentative, awkward swings in the batting cage earlier this summer, the Yankees' manager could only shake his head and mutter, "A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball."
Torre remembered a time when that wasn't the case. "Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie," Torre, a lifetime .297 hitter with 252 home runs, said of his 1960 season alongside the Milwaukee Braves' Hall of Fame 300-game winner. "He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good ...
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- News wire article from: Dallas Morning News July 11, 2001 700+ words
...COLORADO ROCKIES Manager: Buddy Bell The skinny: The Rockies top the National League with a scoring average of six runs per game. But after adding pitchers Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle, they expected to be topping the league. A last-place...
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