Posted by: SteveA () on Mon Apr 28 09:36:39 2003

Mr. X
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> > Just a few comments on what you said here:
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> > "You couldn't be more wrong. Mac, Sosa, Bonds, ect. are GREAT examples to look at. They use their WHOLE body to swing and therefore get as much as possible into the ball. Little kids especially need to use their whole bodies, because they aren't as strong. If they just use their arms, they are using very little of their potential strength.
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> Hello
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> Does anyone really have all the answers? Does anyone really have any of the answers?
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> No. In fact, no one really has even a single answer.
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> Good hitters develop themselves through an arduous process of trial and error motivated by their particular desire to be good hitters. If they have the athletic intelligence to figure it out and the talent to apply their knowledge against elite pitchers, they are a stars.
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> All anyone else has is theory.
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> Skilled reporters such as Jack Mankin occasionally emerge to chronicle what the best hitters do.
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> When he describes what they do, it is of value.
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> But when even a remarkable intellect attempts to form those descriptions into a teaching method, all he has is theory.
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> There are no answers in hitting. There are only basehits, or lack of them.
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> Melvin

Melvin:

Is this phenomenon - the lack of any answers - peculiar to hitting a baseball, or is it true of any athletic endeavor? If it only applies to hitting, and not, for example, stroking a tennis ball or golf ball, why so?
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