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Article: "Walking Wisdom": former pitcher and coach Bill Fischer: one-time big league starter and reliever offers needed "four absolutes" in becoming a successful hurler.
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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THEY CALL BILL FISCHER "Walking Wisdom," which makes the guy laugh. Walking Wisdom, eh? Yeah, they should have been there that day in '63, 11th inning, when or Walking Wisdom pitched for the Kansas City A's and decided to throw a bleeping fastball to Mickey Mantle.
The Mick blasted it off of the bleeping right field facade at Yankee Stadium. They called it 620 feet. They called it 734 feet. Whatever, it was bleeping far.
"Of course if Mickey Mantle was playing at Yankee Stadium today," Fischer says, "with the bleeping fences in, with center field at 400 feet, he'd hit 800 bleeping homers."
Bleep. You can probably tell that Bill Fischer does not ...
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