Posted by: () on Thu Sep 18 16:06:38 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?

Cobb is thoroughly misunderstood. In stance feet close, hands apart.
From there if he chose to slap/place, hands usually stayed apart, stride was very short, weightshift pronounced, with linear stroke.
From that same setup, he might stride long, sliding the top hand down, and swing hip-rotational. Look up the record for most homers in two days; who holds it?