Bill Conlin: Hitting coaches subject to swings of fate  Posted:
August 02, 2010  STAN MUSIAL and Ted Williams were holding court
at the 1966 All-Star Game party in St. Louis. And what do you
suppose two of history's most famous batsmen were talking about?
The record heat wave that would produce a game-time temperature
in Busch Stadium of an official 105 degrees in the shade? (A
thermometer in the sun-scorched National League dugout would
register 145.)  Nope, they were not talking about the heat. Or
President Lyndon Johnson's shrinking approval ratings as the war
in Vietnam rapidly escalated. They didn't even bring up a
Supreme Court decision that criminal suspects must be informed
of their rights when arrested after overturning the conviction
on rape and kidnapping charges of Ernesto Arturo Miranda. Hell,
the only Miranda that Teddy Ballgame and Stan the Man had heard
of was a light-hitting shortstop named Willie Miranda.  These
professors of pop talked about hitting while a growing crowd of
baseball folk a