Posted by: GRC () on Sat Sep 23 17:35:26 2000

RQL....i'll take you up on your offer...please....tell me your experiences in throwing right & hitting left...what stumbling blocks did you encounter & how did you overcome them?.....for years my son (18-years old & in college now)has hit left & throws right.....he could never pull the ball for anything other than a ground ball to 1b or 2b....on the other hand, there were very few hitters i have ever seen who could hit line drive gap shots to left-center the way he could....every hitting instructor i took him to had a different prescription.....do the fence drill, be quicker with the bat,squash the bug more, squash the bug less, etc, etc.....i reached the conclusion that it all had to do with bottom-arm dominence.....when i put him on film, he would bend his front arm, draw in the hands & arms, and without fail, on an inside pitch he would bloop it to left field, hit a pretty good line drive right over shortstop or hit a grounder to 1b or 2b.....and his favorite pitch to drive was a waist-high between the middle of the plate & outside......little-by-little he is improving but he still has a long ways to go.......again, i would appreciate your comments on your experiences, the more detailed the better.....also, it seems like i read one of your posts where you had played with boggs......if you did iwould love to hear what experiences he may have had that you are aware of, for it's my understanding that he too threw right & of course batted left....respectfully, grc......