The 1971 Pirates also featured a well-past-his-prime Bill Mazeroski, sharing secondbase at this point with the riper Cash and Stennett. Maz would transition directly from playing onto Bill Virdon's coaching staff, before realizing that, to the team's consternation, while he could teach some things, he couldn't teach anybody how to turn the doubleplay like he could. It seemed for a while that a disproportionate number of the best hitters in the seventies were either Pirates, Giants, or players that came out of one of those two systems. They seemed to have access to scouting networks for outfielders both domestic and foreign that nobody else had. Those teams were so stacked that a lot of excellent talents --- George Foster, Dave Kingman, Richie Hebner, Richie Zisk --- had to take their bats elsewhere to show what they could really do.