I think we may be marching backward here.  

 Thanks. 

 Stan Lopata, 1950s catcher, had a completely open stance. . . other players of course as well, but anyway, Lopata had a very open stance and a low crouch, like Bagwell.  He came up with a "normal" stance, but Rogers Hornsby, who I think was a coach on an opposing team, not sure of that. . .anyway, Hornsby told him that he wasn't seeing the ball well; he was swinging and missing at pitches way off the plate, which told Hornsby that he was not seeing the ball.  Hornsby worked with him for just a few minutes one day, and completely revamped his swing and his hitting stance.   

 No. 

 I don't think it would be helpful to generalize about him; he was who he was.  He had a pretty big case of entitlement syndrome, I think.  I remember when the Macmillian Baseball Encyclopedia came out, Feller used to go on rants about how wrong it was that they just left out the war years for the players (like him) who didn't play in the war.   Some older publications used to have a line for 1942 (In the Navy) and a line for 1943 (In the Navy, or in the US Army, or In Military Service) or something.   Feller was offended that the Macmillan didn't do that, and I remember that in his rant he would say "So they tell me that it would have been very inconvenient to have to insert those lines.  Well let me ask, don't you think it was pretty inconvenient for the ballplayers, to have to give up several years of their careers to serve their country."   Which was actually a good point, but that was Bob Feller; he wanted what was rightfully his, and he had a kind of expansive view of what was rightfully his.   Like Justin Verlander.  

 1.  I didn't write to Tversky originally; he wrote to me.  I had never heard of him and didn't have any idea who he was, and you have to remember, this is before the internet; you couldn't just go to the Internet and figure out who this was, as we do now.  My memory is that he was in Israel at the time, and I think he wrote maybe a two-page letter on that onion-skin paper that we used to use for international correspondence; I suppose that some people still do.  I didn't have any idea who he was, but I recognized that this was a highly intelligent person raising very good questions, and I tried to respond as appropriately as I could. 

 

2.  THe question about the DP distribution does not explain WHAT DP data you looked at.   The distribution of double plays between teams is largely determined by two variables:  How many runners they have on base against them, and how many ground balls the pitching staff throws.  The ABILITY of the team to turn double plays is a smaller variable.  Double plays aren't like Home RUns or Doubles or Walks, in which the primary variable is the ability of the team in this area.  

 It is coming back, but it's just taking a lot longer than I expected it to.  

 1)  I also enjoyed that video very much.

 

2)  The thought about Paige being a member of the Juan Marichal Family is good one.  I see a lot of similarities there--superb control, working hard on upsetting the batter's timing, etc.

 

3)  Mel Stottlemyre.. . .we always believed that Stottlemyre got a lot of ground balls, and would put him in a Ground Ball family, but we don't have (historically) good systematic records, commonly available, on Double Play Support, which would limit our ability to form those families.  

 

4)  I've tried the "families" thing several times, but here was my failure.  When you think about "real" families, there are all kinds of different relationships, which fade gradually from 100% (Identical twins) to brothers, siblings, fathers and sons, cousins, second cousins, nephews and nieces, etc., and there is never a point at which two people are clearly not in the same family.  

 

THe same is true in "baseball families", and I never built that in.  I always used a system in which two players either were in the same family or were not, and that doesn't really work.   I realize now that the way to make it work is to better define the relationships. 

 I set a goal this year of answering Hey, Bill questions 300 days on the year.   In January I did not do well, but I have not missed a day since (checks the record). . .I wasn't doing well through January 26, and then starting January 27th I have been doing it every day, except that I missed February 1 and February 14 for some reason.   That's not connected to Covidity.   I assume that most of the increase in questions is due to the fact that I'm on here and responding regularly.  

 

As of January 26 I had responded to Hey, Bill questions on only 4 of 26 days, or 15.4%, which would mean that I would have to do 296 of 340 days the rest of the year, or 87.1%.   But now I have increased my percentage to 72.6%, and I have to do 85.2% for the rest of the year. 

 Thanks.  

 Thank you.   Thank you so much.  That's a story that belongs in a book.  

 That's right.  Thanks.  

 Depends by what you mean "In Depth".  I have read at least one book about the case; if there are two books about the case I'm sure I would have read them both.  I've read anything that is easy to find on the web about the case, and I have seen probably a dozen true crime shows about the case.   It's an extremely unusual and extremely interesting case.  

 

My impression is that she was framed for the murder, that she was innocent of it.  But I would not claim to know enough about it that I am certain of the facts one way or the other, and I couldn't really site any facts about the case off the top of my head. . . .couldn't tell you whether something happened in 1975 or 1985.   

 THanks.  Obviously, the fact that the USS Alabama did not go to Europe is not proof that Bob Feller did not go to Europe, but I appreciate your information.  

 That actually is NOT the one I was thinking about, but that illustrates the syndrome perfectly.   He said things that he would have been better off not to say, and he did that consistently for 80 years.   He wasn't a BAD person; in many ways he was a remarable person.   But he could be inconsiderate.