About 20 yrs.ago I started talking about numerous heretical notions such as ....good hitters don't swing down, they do not keep their shoulders level, they do not keep their weight back,the hands are not really all that important..etc,etc. The question is:
Who or what influenced my contrarian views? Obviously [for those who know me] Paul Nyman and Jim Dixon were major influences. But even before these guys there were others that greatly shaped how I tried to understand complex subject matter.
One such person is Thomas Sowell. He will be 90 yrs.old today. I first came to know him around 1980. Here he is on the William F Buckley show in 1981:
By that time he had written about 12 books.[He is/was a PHD economist] He has many more bks. under his belt since then [including a very recent bk. on charter schools]
His ability to think rationally --without emotion/bias/ agendas,etc. forever changed how I try to understand how the world ACTUALLY works.And his way of thinking applies to many things from my vantage point.
There are few people in this world that I respect and admire more than this extraordinary individual. And I wanted to publicly recognize his extraordinary talent,intellect, and accomplishment. I only wish that the culture could clone a thousand or so of such a man!
