Hitless
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Mike Epstein was, I think, the first of a certain genre, one that's quite popular right now but was just about non-existent in 1966. That was the year Epstein showed up. He was a 6-foot-3, 230-or-so pound first baseman who came for one reason: To hit the ball out. Epstein was born in the Bronx and raised in Los Angeles and he was supposed to be a lawyer…