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Hawk Harrelson is always fun. Whether feuding with Jay Mariotti or waxing philosophic during White Sox radio broadcasts, he's become the eccentric uncle who still lives in the bomb shelter he built down in the basement during the Cold War. His latest theory you may find a little odd, though, even for him. Harrelson maintains that the reason home runs are up in the Major Leagues this season (273 so far; more than a 10 percent increase over last season's start and the most hit at this point since 2001, according to Stats Inc.), comes from the way the balls are woven at the factory in Costa Rica. Call it the "tightly-wound finger-ball theory," which Hawk explained to WMVP-AM (1000) radio: More »
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