By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Some disrespectful fans in these parts often unleashed a special yowl when Eddie Yost, the Washington Senators' longtime leadoff man, strode to the plate in the 1950s: "Take the bat off your shoulder, Eddie!"
Some disrespectful fans in these parts often unleashed a special yowl when Eddie Yost, the Washington Senators' longtime leadoff man, strode to the plate in the 1950s: "Take the bat off your shoulder, Eddie!"
This was in the early 1950s, and owner Clark Griffith of the Washington Senators had just learned that third-base coach George Myatt was giving batting lessons to Harmon Killebrew, the club's teenage bonus baby.
But it's interesting to speculate what he might have done statistically had he not so often stood there until, to quote from a popular Gilded Age song, after the ball was over.
"Those pitchers aren't walking me because they feel friendly to me," Yost told The Washington Post in 1953. "They pitch to me like I'm a .400 hitter."
