DAEGU, South Korea — Hwang Jae-gyun, a third baseman for the Lotte Giants in South Korea’s top baseball league, received some curious text messages from his American teammates one morning in July. His name, they told him, was popping up on websites around the world. He was prominent on English-language social media.
“This might be the most ostentatious Korean bat flip of all time,” read a headline on Sports Illustrated’s site.
“Step aside,” Yahoo Sports wrote, “the world’s greatest bat flip has been unearthed.”
CBS Sports hailed what it called the “mother of all bat flips.