” Nelson recalled. “My grandmother stressed the importance of breathing way down deep from the diaphragm, she called it. I found out that that’s probably been as much help as anything
At the end of the 1960 season, Mantle and Mathews were just shy of their 29th birthdays and running neck and neck, comfortably ahead of both Mays and Ruth’s pace, and far ahead of the 26 year-old Aaron. Mays passed Mantle and Mathews in 1964, but started falling off of Ruth’s pac...