And baseball allows each player his own private measures of success: batting averages, slugging percentages and, of course, home runs.
First off, if you're a balding guy getting up there in the years, slugging big fistfuls vitamin capsules isn't going to transform you into a member of some 80s hair band.
Dean could be back on Collingswood Avenue, listening to John Coltrane or Charlie Parker and patting Mrs. Lincoln, or catching a Phillies game on the tube, or eating pizza and slugging down a cold Coors beer.