Best Hitters/Best Swings

nanotech14 said:

Vdubya, I have to disagree with your theory. The better hitters in softball have a wider stance. I'm going to make some people real mad, but Babe Ruth played in a different era and couldn't compete with players now a days. IMO

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softballphreak said:

I'd be willing to bet he could compete with anyone at D1 and below!

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vdubya said:

Obviously many people disagree with me, lol, but for this style what I stated makes intuitive sense. Well, to me anyway.

Siggys clips show Bustos stance isn't wide. Benyi isn't overtly wide in her much-lauded clip. More recently, check out the Jen Yee BP video and see how she is more narrow.

The example in the earlier post was a different style though, and it is a waste for that player to start so wide only to go from point C to point A and then to point B. It is a curious waste to me for which I don't see the purpose, but I am ever open to ideas which change my opinion.
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softballphreak said:

I'd be willing to bet he could compete with anyone at D1 and below!

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rdbass said:

Babe Ruth's Secret Revealed
July 11, 2007By Stephen Walker, PhD

“The scientific ivory hunters of Columbia University discovered that the secret of Babe Ruth’s batting, reduced to non-scientific terms, is that his eyes and ears function more rapidly than those of other players; that his brain records sensations more quickly and transmits its orders to the muscles much faster than does that of the average man. The tests proved that the coordination of eye, brain, nerve system, and muscle is practically perfect, and that the reason he did not acquire his great batting power before the sudden burst at the beginning of the baseball season of 1920, was because, prior to that time, pitching and studying batters disturbed his almost perfect coordination.”

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nanotech14 said:

And the top pitched speed at the time was 65mph

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