"Ted Williams, one of the greatest natural hitters of all time was retired and giving some tips to the rookies at the Red Sox spring training camp.
One of them asked how to tell apart a curveball from a slider when they were coming in.
Williams replied:
"Oh! That's easy.
If it's a curveball, the red spot you see on the ball will be rotating clockwise;
If it's a changeup, counterclockwise."
They rookies all nodded and politely thanked Ted Williams for the tip.
One of the rookies turned to the others and whispered:
"Now who the f*** can even see a red spot on a ball coming at you at 95 mph?"
Then Ted Williams went on to claim that he could tell exactly where on the seams he hit a baseball.
No one believed him.
Ted Williams was long retired at this point. Williams took a bat and covered the barrel with pine tar and they started throwing him some pitches.
Ted would hit and say, "across the seams" or "between the seams" or "across one seam" or whatever.
They retrieved all the balls and found out Ted Williams was right, EVERY single time.
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