KIllebrew didn’t let shift bother him

Here is an interesting clipping I took from the May 3, 1969 edition of the Sporting News that relates to a hot topic in 2019, infield shifts. It makes me wonder why Harmon Killebrew could handle it back then and today’s players seem to struggle with it. You didn’t think that “shifts” were new did you? I don’t think anyone even used the word analytics and computers back then.

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