Thursday, May 23, 2013
Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 5-23-2013
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Milwaukee Journal, May 23, 1913:
Big Ed Walsh, twirling star of the White Sox, announced today that he has joined the faculty of a correspondence school and hereafter must be addressed as “Professor”. For a paper dollar Walsh will send out to aspirants for fame six lessons on the science of moistening the ball and putting it where the batter’s bat isn’t. Walsh starts his classes Monday.
This is not something that strikes me as a useful service. Nonetheless, I’d love to be able to read Walsh’s ...
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1. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) posted on November 23, 2012 at 07:21 AM # hit 0 | hit 0C: Chief Zimmer
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Kila Ka'aihue has signed with the Dbacks.
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I had an email convo with a hitting instructor re an article I’m trying to write. This isn’t personal, so I feel alright quoting it:
With the availability of computerized slow motion technology… we can absolutely define the fundamental characteristics of the greatest hitters that ever played the game, and they are remarkably consistent and definable…. (S)tudying swing clips from that era, the “hall of famers” were remarkably consistent in technique. It makes sense that those that kept their hands inside the ball, creating a shorter more powerful swing that stayed on plane longer, were the most successful hitters.
This led me to an article that states:
the hitting technique of the great hitters is universal; they all fit into an identical envelope from launch-to-contact. In the late 1980s, slow-motion video analysis clearly showed that productive hitters’ hands all moved to the same spot at swing launch, no matter where they started in the stance.
Is this common knowledge amongst Primates? Most of what I’ve read about baseball in the BTF era has been about stats or history. I think the last time I read much on the subject was about 25 years ago when that study came out, but I’m not sure if it was general knowledge at the time.
He thought it wasn't personal.
He was wrong.
GGC is...
"HITTING INSTRUCTOR"!
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