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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 1830468, member: 2350"]
Lau's disciple Walt Hriniak was the batting coach with the Red Sox for a while in the 80's:

[INDENT]Hriniak's batting theories had many adherents among Red Sox players, but he also had detractors. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams']Ted Williams[/URL], the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame']Hall of Fame[/URL] hitter and all-time Boston great, was outspoken in his criticism of Hriniak's methods. Williams and his followers felt that Hriniak robbed his hitters of extra-base power by teaching them to hit the ball up the middle, "swing down on the ball", or to take the upper hand off the bat at the end of their swing — which may have been oversimplifications of Hriniak's philosophies.

"I don't have a problem with Ted Williams", Hriniak told [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Magazine']Yankee Magazine[/URL][/I] in 1986. "He teaches his way, and I teach mine. I don't teach a level swing, a downward swing, or an uppercut swing. Hitters are all different, so I teach all three ... You don't have to hit my way, you don't have to hit his way. Just make up your minds. Don't keep changing lanes. You can't hit when you're confused."[/INDENT]

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