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To: DScottD who wrote (31875)	7/14/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

<<IMHO, Williams was the greatest hitter ever.>> I've heard it was his eyesight. His vision was so acute that he could see the rotations on the ball and know how it would break. What would look like a white pea to you or I looked like a floating basketball to him.

To: DScottD who wrote (31875)	7/14/1999 5:03:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 71178

We talked about that-- I asked Dan if he thought that the young players in baseball had the same sort of overweening ego and disrespect seen in the NBA, the kind that seems to think no one as great as they has ever come before. He said the older ones were probably (what he calls) "students of the game", but as we watched we could see the sort of innocent smiles on many of the young faces (I think one was our Pudge). One of the announcers was almost unable to speak, he was so moved, and he said the same as you- Williams was the greatest hitter ever. Of course you and Dan are so similar in your attitude about baseball. I remember being on an early date with Dan and hearing about how "baseball is a metaphor for life." He is absolutely sincere in his love for the game- for him it has symmetry, and grace, and perfection. I don't pretend to understand it.