Posted by: Mister X () on Sun May 11 17:55:29 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)


Maybe so, but a rope and a person have VERY different weights (sizes). The rope would probably weight about a pound or two, whereas a person weights 200+ pounds. 200 pounds might make a difference, but I don't think 50 pounds would. Once you have a solid base (a person for example, who has significatnly more mass than the ball, no matter what they weight) that won't move, I believe the differences become negligible. By your example, a bigger kid might hit the ball a foot farther (my opinion/guess here), but that doesn't really make a difference except on the balls that just barely make it over the wall. I'm sure my opponents are talking about more than a couple of feet otherwise the point isn't worth arguing.