Posted by: () on Sun May 11 07:18:53 2003

Ignore the attacks, there are to many good responses trying to inform or learn to let this one taint everyone.
I still think strength comes into play in changing the inertia of the ball. If you had a bat on a rope and achieved the same bat speed as a person holding the bat the convential way, the convential way would hit the ball farther. Never tried it but sure seems this would be the case. (added that last part so I don't get attacked)