Thursday, July 18, 2013
Building a better bat
?Changing the bat to reduce pain:
In addition to protecting the batter's hands, the sweet spot also sends the baseball flying farther. "Less energy is lost in the bat's vibration," said Alan Nathan, owner of the website The Physics of Baseball and a retired professor of physics at the University of Illinois. "Not only does it feel better [on the hands], but hits the ball harder."
Of course, consistently nailing the baseball in the right place is no trivial task. "Even in Major League Baseball, you see people mishitting the ball and they have the best hand-eye coordination of anyone in the game," said Nathan. "Otherwise, there would be more people hitting home runs."
Since it's hard enough to hit a baseball, let alone right on the bat's sweet spot, Russell researched a way to diminish the excessive vibrations caused by a bad hit. Working with Marucci Sports, he designed a vibration absorber that's built into the knob of of their metal and composite baseball bats.
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