Probably even fewer know that future Hall of Famers Monte Irvin and Larry Doby took some of their first professional swings at the stadium.
This, Thaler said, is faster than a professional golf swing and comparable to a pitcher throwing a 90-mile-an-hour fastball.
Tiger Woods swings his golf club a thousand times a day while other professional only swings their golf club about a hundred times a day.
The reason is simple: the repetitive, violent shocks generated as a professional golfer swings and thwacks are too much to bear for the sensitive instrument that is a typical luxury mechanical watch.
Why not? "I have a 22-year database of pitchers, 22 years of professional experience swinging the bat," Ibanez, 41, said.
Before the stretching exercises yesterday, Jay Witasick, a spare Yankee pitcher, observed Stanton's professional-looking swings.
Most teaching professionals use video swing analysis to show students what is going right and wrong.
They can't stand it when a smug professional film critic swings into their fantasy with a bunch of naysaying.
Unlikely, but researchers at the University of Chicago, using brain-imaging equipment, are studying how professional golfers prepare to swing, in the hope that it will help in physical rehabilitation.
"He's a phenomenal player, incredible ball-striker, one of the prettiest swings in professional golf, so this is no surprise to me," said Immelman, who is at two under par.
