Posted by: Coach C () on Thu Sep 18 11:27:54 2003

Hello everyone,
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> I just happened to stumble onto this board. Has anyone looked into using a Ty Cobb's hands-apart grip. This this site claims that the power of a swing is derived from rotating the bat about a point midway between the hands, it would seem that hands-apart grip would help this cause.
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> I realize the "snap" would be lost, but it seems to me that the bat head could be controlled much better.
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> Any thoughts?

Can't think of the guy's name right now, but one of the all-time Cuban batting champions used a split grip as well. It's the age old argument...bat control or speed. I'm a control guy first, then speed, you need to decide for yourself on that one.

Coach C