Like many boys growing up I was a big baseball fan. I was also fortuitously linked to a
golden age of Bay Area sports having grown up in Oakland. The Oakland Athletics won American League
Pennants 3 years in a row and were World Series champs during my childhood.
I remember one game when the A’s were hosting the Baltimore Orioles and future Hall of
Famer Cal Ripken. The Orioles shortstop hit three homers that day and when I read about his feat in the Sporting Green I came across something that really impressed me.
It turned out that in-between each at bat Ripken was changing-up his
swing. I couldn’t understand why a player who was already hitting so well would want to change a thing. But years
later I grew to appreciate his refusal to settle despite success. He was constantly tweaking his approach in search of ways to be even better.
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