Posted by: jerry 220 hitter () on Fri Oct 8 20:17:08 2010

Hi Jack > You wrote only a small percent of early 1900 hitters used Tht and Chp .Mike Schmidt in his book( the mike schmidt study) pretty much said the same thing.He stated the reason the early 1900 hitters used a linear hand path was they were playing in a dead ball era and it did them no good to hit the ball in the air. The ball just wouldnt go any where. Balls hit air in the dead ball era were just fly ball outs.He also said that about 1920 they jacked up the baseball put some life in it.And thats were the rotational hitter came in to dominate .Players like Hack Wilson ,Babe Ruth, and others with the live baseball and there rotational mechanics changed the game forever .The slugging percentage and home runs started to fly.