Posted by: The Hitman (ahsnumber3@aol.com) on Sat Apr 20 17:35:02 2002

By looking at pictures and clips of many old-school hitters, it seems almost certain that weight-shifting-linear momentum contributes to batspeed. In hitters such as Williams-ruth-musial-mantle, their back leg is gone when there stride foot hits the ground. These guys were no where near(ruth as his peak was like 210) as big as Mac and Sammy but hit the as far or farther, yes these guys did rotate around a stationary axis once their stride foot landed, but i find it difficult to believe that these players weight shift-linear momentum didnt contribute any to rotational momentum.
The Hitman