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BERNIE WILLIAMS WAS JUST A teenager coming up through the Yankees organization when a minor league manager by the name of Buck Showalter approached him one day about becoming a switchhitter.
To say that Williams, then exclusively a right-handed hitter, resisted the idea of incorporating the other batter's box into his offensive game is to put it mildly.
"He fought me tooth-and-nail," Showalter said. "I told him, `Young man, there's going to come a day when you're going to thank me for putting you in a situation where you're always going to have that breaking ball coming toward you rather than moving away.'"
Showalter's insistence is part of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Switch-hitters: batting from both sides of the plate can make or...