Bat Speed -- Baseball Hitting Forum

Posted by: thejuice32 () on Sun Jun 15 09:21:51 2003

It's very simple actually. If you have ever seen an interview with a baseball physicist, they all say the same thing: corked bats do not help.
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> I saw an interview on ESPN last week with the former official NL phyicist and he went on to say that where Sosa had the cork it could have only hurt him. Studies have proven that on average a corked bat will hit the ball 3 feet LESS than a regular bat.
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> Sosa did cheat, and his punishment is fair, but his legend should not be tarnished.

Jake-
If it doesnt help, then why have players been doing it for so many years??? Especially when they know the consequences for getting caught. Physics also say that a curve ball is an optical illusion...
thejuice

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Re: corking
Mister X [ Sun Jun 15 10:54:43 2003 ]
- Re: Re: corking
  thejuice [ Sun Jun 15 13:28:53 2003 ]
  - Re: Re: Re: corking Mister X [ Sun Jun 15 20:11:38 2003 ]
    Re: Re: Re: Re: corking Doug [ Sun Jun 15 21:10:37 2003 ]
    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: corking Mister X [ Mon Jun 16 16:00:09 2003 ]
    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: corking Doug [ Tue Jun 17 04:54:50 2003 ]
    corking Mister X [ Tue Jun 17 10:28:33 2003 ]
    corking Doug [ Tue Jun 17 17:26:55 2003 ]
    corking Mister X [ Wed Jun 18 11:03:45 2003 ]
    corking Jake [ Thu Jun 19 08:10:07 2003 ]
    
    corking Doug [ Wed Jun 18 20:47:24 2003 ]
    corking Mister X [ Thu Jun 19 22:53:45 2003 ]
    corking Doug [ Sat Jun 21 12:01:29 2003 ]
    Re: corking Mister X [ Thu Apr 14 09:53:22 2005 ]
    Re: Re: corking cinny [ Wed Jan 2 09:24:33 2008 ]
    Re: Re: Re: corking THG [ Fri Jan 4 12:22:56 2008 ]
    Re: Re: Re: Re: corking Jack Mankin [ Fri Jan 4 13:07:25 2008 ]
    
    Re: corking Mister X [ Sun Jun 22 18:48:50 2003 ]

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