Posted by: thebigd (thebigd@hotmail.com) on Mon Sep 19 10:00:01 2011

Instructors have always told me to consider the knob and the ball to be attracted like magnets to steel. To get the knob of the bat as close to the ball as you possibly can, which forces you to keep the bat head back and produce the maximum velocity on the bat head as it comes around to meet the ball.