Today many, if not most, hitters use a slight uppercut in their swings, because the home run is where the big money is. However, Matty Alou made a pretty good living actually swinging slightly down on the ball. He was taught to do this by the 1947 batting champ, Harry "The Hat" Walker. It worked well enough to make him a career .307 hitter and the NL batting champion in 1966. It wasn't glamorous, but it worked.
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