University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 28, 1992
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SPORTS
Former Royal says he corked his bat
The Associated Press
MOBILE, Ala. — Amos Otis, who batted 277 during his 17-year major-league career, said he used a corked bat about half the time.
"It helped me a great deal," Otis said in a story published yesterday in the Mobile Press.
Otis, a Mobile native, will be inducted Thursday in the city's sports hall of fame. He played for the Kansas City Royals from 1970-83.
"The Mobile Sports Hall of Fame
will be my third, "Otis said. "I'm in the Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame and I'm also in the hall of shame. That's when you cheat in the big leagues."
Otis, 44, said he was not the only one who used a hollowed-out bat filled with cork or other substances. Hitters think the illegal bats have more spring.
"Back then a lot of people did it, and very seldom did anybody get caught." he said. "The only people I know who got caught were Craig Nettles and Toby Harrah. They had an idea about me, but I never got caught so they
couldn't prove it."
Otis said a friend of his with a wood shop made the corked bats.
"I did it my whole career in the American League," he said.
Otis' career batting average of .277 came on 2,020 hits with 1,007 RBI, 341 stolen bases and 198 homers.
Otis is a hitting instructor for the Colorado Rockies, who will begin play in the National League next year, and he also works with players on the Rockies' two minor-league teams.
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