Posted by: mb () on Fri Nov 12 08:34:20 2004

Bonds and Mcgwire were always pfo hitters and so was Ted Williams.
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Flail - noun
"ancient hand tool for threshing grain. It consists of two pieces of wood: the handstaff, or helve, and the beater, joined by a thong. The handstaff is a light rod several feet long, the beater a shorter piece. "

How in the world could it ever be a linear method of swinging??
Clearly to use a flail properly it would have to be swung in a circular motion. Understanding the physics of the flail will increase batspeed, ball compression and increase ball velocity off the bat.
Which I will save for another post.