Sublime

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The accumulation of deliberate practice—focused work with intent—is the key to quicker achievement of expertise.

BOTTOM-UP

SLG = (Singles) + (Doubles x 2) + (Triples x 3) + (Homers x 4) / At Bats, or, put more simply, Total Bases / At Bats

But sabermetric orthodoxy, based on complex run-scoring simulations, says that the number-two batter—who makes almost as many plate appearances as the leadoff man, but bats with more runners on base—should be the club’s best hitter, instead of the high-contact, good-bat-control, move-the-runners-over type that teams have been sticking there since t

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Some aspects of Sean’s baseball background are the same as every other professional player’s. He remembers swinging one of those short plastic bats with the big barrels when he was barely old enough to stand, and he grew up going to his father’s rec-league softball games. By the time Jack Conroy stopped playing, Sean was old enough to start, and hi

Dickey writes about how rare this is in his memoir, Wherever I Wind Up:

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