Posted by: Louis Bierman () on Sun Apr 14 06:03:03 2002

To Whom:

I would like to point out the fact that there is so much mythology in baseball. I was reading a book writen by a scientist about his studies of atheletics.

In one part the told the story of how Ted Williams did a demonstration of how well he could see the ball. He put pine tar on a bat. Some one pitched to him and Ted said he would tell everyone what part of the ball, top or bottom, he was going to hit. After he hit the ball they would go look at where the pine tar marked the ball. The decided that Ted had predicted acturalty every time.

My question is this: Wouldn't the markings left on a ball hit on the top half look the same as the ball that was hit on the bottom half? Further, couldnt you tell where the ball was hit by it's flight? A ball hit on the bottem would be hit in the air and one on the top be hit on the ground. To me this incident has so many flaws in it that it is probably not true or those involved are very stupid.

The writer was a SCIENTIST. My point is that there is a lot of BS in baseball.

Lou Bierman