Many regard Elmer Valo as the greatest Czechoslavakia-born baseball player. The Ribnik native collected 1,420 hits in 20 Major League seasons with the Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics, Phillies, Browns, Los Angeles Dodgers, Indians, Yankees, Senators and Twins before returning to the Phils. Old Man Valo got around more than a traveling dictionary salesman - to put it in '50's prose. My question is: when Valo would only go around half-way on a swing, did they call it a "Czech swing?"
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