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The payoff: for Eddie Murray, switch-hitting experiment was a huge success; during the early stages of his career, future Hall of Famer faced reluctance by Baltimore management on his desire to bat from both sides of plate.
THE ORIOLES KNEW THEY HAD something special at Double-A Asheville in 1975, even if Eddie Murray wasn't showing it at the plate.
He was 19 then, and the accolades were already piling up, so this hardly seemed like the time for drastic measures or new tricks.
Jimmie Schaffer, the Asheville manager that season, watched Murray struggle for four months as a right-handed hitter before suggesting he experiment with switch-hitting. Other Orioles officials thought Schaffer was nuts.
They had seen Murray blister baseballs from the right side in previous years, so they flocked to Asheville to stop the experiment in its tracks. Murray looked at each of them with those steely eyes and told them he'd be fine.
He wanted to try this, too.
Reluctantly at first, the Orioles let it happen and watched Murray blossom into one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history. Last January, he became the 38th first-ballot player elected into the Hall of Fame.
If Schaffer felt any extra satisfaction upon hearing the news, it was knowing he played a big role at a pivotal moment in Murray's career. It was knowing he stuck to his gut feeling, even if it meant risking his own job.
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