The news of the passing of a great baseball slugger Harmon Killebrew is all around the world. Killebrew passed away from esophageal cancer at age 74. After his outstanding 22 year career he was inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame.
This website truly talks greatly about Killebrew's skill. He represents everything baseball should be. He is being compared to A-rod and Barry Bonds and the article says that they are nowhere close to Killebrew's skill.
It makes sense though, back in the day when there was a good player, they were naturally gifted, not saying that players now aren't. But there are playing enhanced drugs circulating the MLB and a lot of training and players spend a lot of money to play for travel teams and be seen. All those components go into making players outstanding. As from back in the day I feel like skill, hardwork, and motivation made a MLB star.
Harmon Killebrew has been the inspiration behind the MLB logo. I just thought it was a random picture drew by an artist. But after comparing the two, they are indeed very similar, almost too similar. Killebrew was very modest and humble and for the longest time would never admit being the model, but more than one person believes that they are too similar to not be the same.
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| Killebrew's famous uppercut swing |
Not much substance to this post. The second link is broken. There's a lot that could have been written about Killebrew. He was a great. Score = 7
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