Author: Jacob

A Japanese man is the new superstar of American baseball. Experts have compared him to the legend Babe Ruth, but the comparison is impossible as Shohei Ohtani is an entirely different personality. Some even go so far as to refer to Ohtani as the best player of all time and his ability is truly beyond question. Most recently, he even appeared twice in the all-star baseball game in Denver.

Women have long since proven that they can be successful in baseball. But what Kim Ng has achieved has never before been performed by a woman. She became the first female boss in the men’s baseball league. With that, she smashed the invisible glass ceiling that still prevents many women from pursuing a career in male-dominated industries. Her success made history. Her order comes as no surprise. After all, she has long proven that she knows a lot about baseball. Now she received the appropriate reward at the MLB in Miami.

When it comes to the bat weight, it is often assumed that the stronger the player, the heavier the bat should be. That is not necessarily the case. Accelerating the heavy bat will be harder than a lighter one, which means the point at which the bat will have the most force will be at the end of your swing.

Choosing a baseball bat might not seem like a big deal. After all, a bat is a bat, right? Well, you will be surprised by the variety of bats on the market in terms of material, and the guidelines by which a bat is to be chosen. It is very much a numbers game, and pretty much the same principles apply to women as to men. Your age, your height, your weight, and your league all matter in this process. Let’s break down the process in simple terms.

Baseball is no different from any other sport in that it is a zero sum game. You know full well your team will lose, and sometimes that loss will be a wipeout, and sometimes the victory will be snatched away at the last second.

Decades of competition have indisputably proven that women can compete in baseball on par with men. But equality does not mean homogeneity, and women carry many important psychological differences into baseball and sport in general. If the goal is to train the next generation of professional female baseball athletes, then all psychological factors must be taken into consideration when coaching girls and young women. There is research-based information that can be actionable on the diamond, which coaches should take on board. This is not to say that there is a universal method for all women – the research findings are a generalisation which allows for general guidelines in women’s baseball coaching. This should not be done at the expense of accounting for individual differences of each team member.

This is an interesting time for women in sports, including baseball. Some consider this time somewhere between the worst being behind, but the best having yet to arrive.

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In 1942 the world was at war, and in the young men of the US starting from 18 years of age were taken into the army. Because of this, the sports leagues, specifically the Major League Baseball Parks across the country were on the brink of collapse. They were trying to find a way to keep baseball leagues up and running. During that time Philip Wrigley, a chewing-gum businessman, whose father passed on the Chicago Cubs to his son, tried to come up with a solution to solve this dilemma. After long conversations with the baseball committee, it has been decided that the girls’ softball league is to be established to keep the fans coming to the games.