He's got the good face - and more

Sporting News, The, Oct 16, 1995 by Dave Kindred

About then, the boy became a switch-hitter. The man and the boy would watch a Saturday afternoon game on television. They'd go out by the hay barn and the boy would be every hitter in both lineups. Righthanders, he hit righthanded. Lefthanders, he'd turn around. Dad couldn't throw a ball past the boy from either side. Dad told Mom, Lynn, this is scary."

Dad and Mom came to the ballpark on a night when their boy hit the first big league home run they ever saw him hit. It won a game in the ninth inning. Dad and Mom came out of their seats, made happy noises, hugged the famous Karin, and mostly they cried.