Ted Williams...had one of the highest percentages of home runs - in proportion to his times at bat - in the history of baseball, but he had only one season when he hit as many as 40 homers, because he walked as often as 162 times a season - averaging more than one walk per game, during the era of the 154-game season. By contrast, when Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961, breaking the existing record, he was walked less than a hundred times because Mickey Mantle was batting right after him and Mantle hit 54 home runs that season. There was no percentage in walking Maris to pitch to Mantle with one more man on base. Maris' productivity as a home-run hitter was greater because he batted with Mickey Mantle in the on-deck circle.
In virtually all jobs, the quality of the equipment, management and other workers goes into determining a given worker's productivity.
- Thomas Sowell
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