Posted by: Black Hole Lexicographer (Knight@aol.com) on Wed Dec 22 08:04:40 1999

> Hi Dog
>
> I put my thoughts down on this subject in "Swing down at the Ball" under "Truisms or Fallacies." Let me know what you think.
>
> Jack Mankin

Salutations Jack and Dog,
While the uppercut--or upswing, to be precise--is longer than the level swing, or downswing, it "keeps the barrel of the bat in the potential contact zone for the longest period of time." This information can be found in "Hitting The Ted Williams Way, Vol. 1" (Steve Ferroli), Hit Your Potential (Steve Ferroli), and in The Science of Hitting (Ted Williams).

I do not agree with a majority of the material I read, but Ferroli and Williams made a lucid point that "uppercutting" is incorrect, because you are denoting a golf-swing trajectory, whereas an "upswing" denotes giving the level swing an upward diagonal trajectory, discussed in The Science of Hitting (Ted Williams), and Hit Your Potential (Steve Ferroli). In the latter book, I believe Ferroli states 'he understands why Mo Vaughn uppercuts, but believes a slight upswing will be more effective.'

If you have any more thoughts, speak, I charge you, with resilience of mind and hand, and let the juice of your thoughts squirt through the com wires and spill out unto thy webpage. This is my Poetically-Based Statistical Lexicography.

Sincerely,
The Black Hole Lexicographer
Knight1285@aol.com