Literary birthday greetings: Charley Lau and Addie Joss

April 12, 2011

Among baseball players, those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach hitting. Charley Lau was consider a master instructor, even though his lifetime batting average over 11 seasons as a part-timer was just .255.

Lau’s theories on batting were published in several volumes, both by him and others, including:

Hall of Famer Addie Joss was born this date in 1880 and died from meningitis at the age of 31. Scott Longert published Addie Joss: King of the Pitchers. via SABR in 1988.

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