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Re: wood v. aluminum.

Posted by: gregg stock (gregg.stock@line6.com) on Wed Jan 30 16:59:13 2002

Which baseball bat, wood or aluminum, would send a baseball a greater distance when hit?
> Thank you. My son Malik has a science project discussing this very topic. Can you cite any empirical evidence/test data to support your findings?
> I find it truly amazing that I just discovered batspeed.com tonight.
> Go Red Sox and Ted Williams was the greatest hitter who ever lived.

See http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/Parkland/sld001.htm for some baseball physics.

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> Which baseball bat, wood or aluminum, would send a baseball a greater distance when hit? > > Thank you. My son Malik has a science project discussing this very topic. Can you cite any empirical evidence/test data to support your findings? > > I find it truly amazing that I just discovered batspeed.com tonight. > > Go Red Sox and Ted Williams was the greatest hitter who ever lived. > > See http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/Parkland/sld001.htm for some baseball physics.

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