The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement
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by
H A Dorfman and Rick Wolff
The whole book a can be summed up in a few words. Breathe, see the ball, be easy (relax) and confidence. But there a lot of cool stories so it's fun to read. Visualize line drives and let them happen. Thinking and planning (usually when facing tougher pitching) are done in the on deck circle and in the hole. You do not want your mind cluttered with mechanical cues. Thats what practice is for and if you should have confidence in the box because you know you have prepared/practiced. Come game speed, the subconscious mind is a better hitter.
Oh, sure, the mechanical cue thing I agree with. We're probably thinking of different things when we talk about not thinking.
I have girls who "don't think" when they go up to hit. That means they go up there with no concept of score, count, runners on base, who the pitcher is and what she throws or how hard. They don't look for a pitch in a location. They can strike out on a changeup in the first two at bats and not understand they might get a changeup in the third. That is the "don't think" I'm talking about.