For the last 50 years scientists have conducted numerous studies to understand how baseball players can run, track and catch a fly ball. Many of those studies settle on an explanation that more or less stipulates what every coach will tell you: “Keep your eye on the ball.” Without visual contact of the ball, a […]
Last Friday, one of Major League Baseball’s most talented and marketable young stars was lost for the season when the Marlins’ Jose Fernandez went under the knife to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL); aka Tommy John surgery. Fernandez just might be the best young pitcher in baseball (Clayton Kershaw fans would probably disagree) […]
In the sports world, no punctuation mark is as dreaded as the asterisk. Asterisks never appear in a stats column for anything good. Thanks to performance-enhancing drug (PED) usage by high-profile players like Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez and Jose Canseco, the last few decades have become Major League Baseball’s “asterisk era.” Baseball is not alone […]
Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters of all time, shared his secrets and beliefs about hitting in his 1970 book The Science of Hitting. Amongst a wealth of insights in his book that are still read by hitters today, Williams shared an intriguing idea: “Swinging a bat is like swinging an axe.” On its own, this […]
Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton stares down a baseball. His impressive shoulder muscles gleaming in the bright sunshine and fully exposed in a sleeveless t-shirt, Stanton unleashes his fierce swing on the unsuspecting sphere of leather and cork. The baseball isn’t sent spinning 500 feet through the air, however, like one might see on the […]
