National League pitchers still bat...some of them occasionally even get a hit.
My favorite player of all time, Tug McGraw (yes, his son is a liberal, but I will always love Tug) once said he'd rather retire than go to the American League because the DH was an abomination. One of the many reasons I loved this man and cried bitterly when he died. I met him at Shea when I was about 10 or 11, and he was very nice to me. That was over 35 years ago, and I still remember it.