Games of Knowledge | Sports and Exercise

Games Guy | February 6, 2012

Here is a tip for you. Perhaps a small number of you out there have difficulty dropping your hands, perhaps even higher cutting at the ball. I have a baseball tee drill that will help you out. It takes place off a tee.

What I want to do is start off with a high tee. When I have the ball up high, an uppercut’s not going to work. You can do this drill regularly. But what it should compel you to do is stay on top of the ball, here. You have difficulty with with your hands dropping on the bat and attempting to swing this way, you can see I’m going to have trouble getting on top of this ball.

What you need to do, put the tee up high and work on hitting line drives of ground balls. From this point, I’d like to come down on the ball. It’s going to drill your back leg working. It will work on your hands staying above the ball. This is going to need to occur over and over for you to become used to not doing this. But we would like to stay up top and come down. I think that may help you.

Do this drill quite a lot. Keep in mind , hitting’s muscle memory. The more often you can do it, the more you’ll get used to it. We will dump that dropping of the hands or that uppercut.

Get in a good stance and work down over the top of the ball. So use this high tee drill to help improve an uppercut or dropping the hands. It’ll help you out enormously. It helped me, so I am sure with time and practice it will help you. If you use this drill, your swing will improve and will lead to a awesome game.

Bobby Hilton is a minor league baseball coach who once was a player in the minor league system. He has learned drills from the top coaches in major league baseball, in particular catcher instruction and baseball hitting drills.

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Games Guy | February 5, 2012

Softball is regarded as a descendant of baseball where two groups vie with one another with 10 to fourteen players in each team. The primary key difference between them is that softballs are bigger than baseballs. Softball is also played on a diamond but smaller in comparison to that of baseballs. Although its name is softball, there isn’t anything soft about the ball being used in the game and in fact it is physically tougher than a baseball.

Softball did not start out as “softball” right away. The earliest softball game happened in Chicago during Thanksgiving of 1887. It was in a soccer game between Yale and Harvard where everything warmed up due to a bet. A Yale alumnus suddenly hurled a boxing glove at the Harvard proponent. The man grabbed a chunk of stick and smacked the glove.

Somebody is the bunch screamed “Play ball!” and a new game was born. Initially they bundled the boxing hand glove into a ball and a brush handle worked as a bat. The 1st game of softball (which was nameless that time) ended with 41-40 score. Everybody had a great time that night even though it started by accident.

The game was named “indoor Baseball” but the game moved outdoors the next year and the 1st sets of rules were out in 1889. During 1895, Minneapolis organized an out of doors game for firefighters as a form of work out and was called “Kitten Ball” with unimportant difference with the 1st softball that occurred in 1887. The game was also called diamond ball, lemon ball, mush ball, cabbage ball, and pumpkin ball. The first softball league was put together in Toronto in 1897.

The name “softball” was coined in United States in 1926 and has grown across the U.S. And the name “softball” became the official name of the game. Today, softball is being played all over the world in virtually all regions and still gains acclaim.

Johnny Martinez coaches softball and spends his free time studying the game’s history. If you live in the southern California area be sure to visit his facebook page: Whittier Girls Softball and learn more about his league, Whittier Whittier Fastpitch.

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