As Bob Kendrick, president of the Kansas City-based Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, tells it, baseball’s all-time hit king had eyes like Ted Williams and power like Babe Ruth.
“For me, his greatest feat of all is hitting a ball into the right-field upper deck at Yankee Stadium,” says Kendrick. “They say he was circling the bases and just giggling. He was the kind of guy who was so strong that he could poke you in the arm and it would hurt, but he didn’t know he was hurting you.”
