Willie Keeler

Enough Innuendo. Let's name names. It's time to embrace McCarthyism—Charlie McCarthyism—and expose those in baseball who are so unmuscled, so fungo-bat skinny, so ventriloquist's-dummy diminutive that they couldn't...

We may be nearing the end of an era when contact hitters can earn their keep without hitting home runs

Where They Ain'tBy Burt Solomon, The Free Press, $25

•Dave Valle, Seattle Mariner catcher, a career .230 hitter, to teammate Ken Griffey Jr.: "It's easy to hit .300 with your swing. Try doing it with mine."

A fresh stat, CAM, allows exact comparisons of oldtime hitters to new, of Cobb to Carew