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 Many people seem to believe that baseball hitting at a high performance level is just some naturalathletic ability that some people have while most people don't. But excellent baseball hittingrequires excellent baseball training in the science and art of batting. It's true that some natural abilities are needed in order for one to have the potential to become anexcellent hitter in baseball. For instance, a .400 hitter will never be unless he's got superioreyesight, so that he's able to pick up the ball from the earliest point in the pitcher's delivery andthen read the spinning of the seams in great detail. And, yes, there does need to be a natural giftfor basic hand-eye coordination. But hitting a baseball well is widely regarded as the single most difficult feat in all of professionalsports, all things considered. The baseball hitter has to use a round stick to hit a round ball, andthat ball is moving rapidly (sometimes VERY rapidly) over a short distance and has been thrownby someone who is intending to make that ball miss the bat. And that's all just about makingCONTACT with the ball. Then there's the part where the contact is supposed to be good enoughthat it gives the batter's team some offense! So, truly, there's more to batting than meets the eye when it comes to baseball hitting. Mind andbody have to work in unison to achieve effective hitting results. And that's just not going to happenunless there is some excellent baseball training in hitting. Think about it. With only rare exceptions, major league baseball pitchers, some of the greatestathletes in the world, are utterly terrible at batting. You would think that they would be some of thevery best hitters because they supposedly can anticipate the pitcher better than most otherplayers. And those of us who played little league baseball surely remember those guys who weregreat pitchers as well as great hitters--in fact, that seemed to go hand in hand a great deal of thetime. But clearly, that's not the case in the major leagues. You see, major league pitching itself issuch a demanding art that pitchers have to spend most of their practice time pitching--not takingbatting practice. So, even though they may have a lot of natural talent, very few of them can beeven competent big-leagues baseball hitters. Their baseball training just doesn't fall into thatcategory. If you notice, you'll see that most catchers aren't anything better than mediocre hitters, either,although they certainly are better than pitchers and there are some of them who are real battingchampions. The baseball training of catchers, too, is more highly specialized to focus on theextremely difficult to master set of skills needed for catching. So, excellent baseball hitting is so difficult that some of the best athletes aren't very good at it--simply because they don't get enough of the specialized baseball training that makes good hitters.Another thing to think about is that really good baseball hitting is so difficult to master that we giveMost Valuable Player awards to hitters who get put out 650, 675, 700 times out of every 1,000 atbats! And if a guy makes an out even more than 700 times for every 1,000 attempts, but he can hitthat ball a country mile 35 or 40 or 50 times when he DOES make contact, we may give him anMVP trophy, too! So, what this all means for you is that there are certain baseball training techniques that are
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