Posted by: The Hitting Guru (hitman3527@aol.com) on Sat Jan 14 20:11:07 2006

> I believe that I've read a baseball must travel at 105 MPH in order to travel 400 ft. Whether off a tee, or off a 98 mph fastball, it must leave the bat at 105 (and about a 30 degree upward trajectory).
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> > >how fast does a baseball pitched 98mph travle off a bat swung hard enough to go 400 plus feet?


See Robert K Adair's book the physics of baseball. If it does not give the exact answer, it will give more room for incite.