Good question! I have to look it up but it was against the Rockies in Colorado and it was ruled a double and a two-base error. The scorer agreed to overturn it but he ran out of time!
I just love it: first "A room under my name" and this: "Hustle is free". Two hits back to back. Two important lessons on character.
I am a software programmer. Reading this, I ask myself: What is hustle for a coder? Is it writing a hundred lines of code in a day? Well, what if they are garbage?
It isn't so much the amount of output, but the quality.
Back in the days of the mainframe, the IBM 360 or UNIVAC 1108, you would submit your deck of cards. Then, while you were waiting for the printout, you would sit and worry about what bugs you didn't catch. What could go wrong?
Hustle to a programmer is defensive programming. What you coded may have been a home run. But you will look really foolish if it crashes your website or gives you garbage instead of real data science. You have hustle if you have already figured out how to fix a bug before it is found. Lack of hustle is assuming that nothing could go wrong.
Hustle comes in many forms. Thanks for reminding me.
I really enjoyed the nuance in this piece. You can’t just sprint around 1st only to find yourself hung up on a long single. Hustle, plus awareness. Rose had that. We share a birthday, he was short (there’s no way he was 5’11”), and played hard, so I looked up to him as a kid. I didn’t have power, so legging out grounders was my Little League specialty. I had a bunt home run when I was 10. It took three throwing errors, but I just ran and heard the coach yelling, “Go, go, go!” Funniest part was me practicing my bunt technique in the batter’s box after getting the sign. Coach came over and said, “Okay Brian, save it for the at bat.” These are things you never forget, and man, you have certainly remembered a lot!
Brian. I remember repeating something I was told because I was going to miss Little League practice one day for no good reason. “I don’t need to practice.” So I was benched for a couple of games and that stayed with me. It is amazing how much we retain from Little League and good coaching lessons. So much of those lessons take not a stitch of talent. Or like you said just take “awareness.”
Great article. Hustle certainly pertains to life in general. Most of the time, opportunities don't just fall into your lap. Takes hustle to make it!
59 HR off of 54 pitchers.... who is the lucky one that would have been 60?
Good question! I have to look it up but it was against the Rockies in Colorado and it was ruled a double and a two-base error. The scorer agreed to overturn it but he ran out of time!
looks like it has to be the AB against Bobby Jones in this game:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL199808140.shtml
It would've been a two homerun game too! Now we NEED the full story
That would be it? Instead of seeing “red” for me it is seeing “Bobby Jones.” Jonesing!
The Phillies media and admin got on the scorer about it. So he agreed to change it but waited too long!
I'm hoping the alcalde de Starkville can find us that call!
I just love it: first "A room under my name" and this: "Hustle is free". Two hits back to back. Two important lessons on character.
I am a software programmer. Reading this, I ask myself: What is hustle for a coder? Is it writing a hundred lines of code in a day? Well, what if they are garbage?
It isn't so much the amount of output, but the quality.
Back in the days of the mainframe, the IBM 360 or UNIVAC 1108, you would submit your deck of cards. Then, while you were waiting for the printout, you would sit and worry about what bugs you didn't catch. What could go wrong?
Hustle to a programmer is defensive programming. What you coded may have been a home run. But you will look really foolish if it crashes your website or gives you garbage instead of real data science. You have hustle if you have already figured out how to fix a bug before it is found. Lack of hustle is assuming that nothing could go wrong.
Hustle comes in many forms. Thanks for reminding me.
And his 3rd against a Bobby Jones ( hit one against each Booby Jones that season)
I really enjoyed the nuance in this piece. You can’t just sprint around 1st only to find yourself hung up on a long single. Hustle, plus awareness. Rose had that. We share a birthday, he was short (there’s no way he was 5’11”), and played hard, so I looked up to him as a kid. I didn’t have power, so legging out grounders was my Little League specialty. I had a bunt home run when I was 10. It took three throwing errors, but I just ran and heard the coach yelling, “Go, go, go!” Funniest part was me practicing my bunt technique in the batter’s box after getting the sign. Coach came over and said, “Okay Brian, save it for the at bat.” These are things you never forget, and man, you have certainly remembered a lot!
Brian. I remember repeating something I was told because I was going to miss Little League practice one day for no good reason. “I don’t need to practice.” So I was benched for a couple of games and that stayed with me. It is amazing how much we retain from Little League and good coaching lessons. So much of those lessons take not a stitch of talent. Or like you said just take “awareness.”