News tagged with baseball pitch
Statistical analysis debunks the old adage 'Pitching is 75 percent of the game'
Baseball legend Connie Mack famously said pitching is 75 percent of the game. He was wrong -- a new analysis by a University of Delaware professor finds it's just 25 percent.
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Pitching an idea
(PhysOrg.com) -- Elbow injuries suffered by pitchers in Major League Baseball occur frequently and result in tens of millions of dollars in losses each season, representing the money that must be paid in salaries ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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Applying Newton's Laws of Motion to Baseball Pitching
The April 2009 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine profiles Mike Marshall, the former major league baseball hurler who teaches a pitching methodology based on Sir Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion.
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Engineering students score a slam dunk (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a 240-pound forward slam dunks a basketball, some fans probably wonder how much force is being generated into the goal. Students at Clemson University now can answer that question with ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Elbow position not a predictor of injury
Elbow position alone appeared to not affect injury rates and performance in college-level, male pitchers say researchers presenting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco, ...
Feb 11, 2012 |
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Enhanced vision training boosts batters, research shows
Members of the University of Cincinnati (UC) baseball team significantly improved their batting performance with the help of an enhanced vision training program, according to research published in a scientific research journal.
Jan 20, 2012 |
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CBS Sports to open fantasy platform to developers
(AP) -- CBS Sports is opening its fantasy sports platform to third-party developers, allowing them to sell league-specific apps that will likely make this year's games a lot more competitive for millions of players and - ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Markerless motion capture offers a new angle on tennis injuries
A new approach to motion capture technology is offering fresh insights into tennis injuries – and orthopedic injuries in general.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Neural balls and strikes: Where categories live in the brain
Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorize a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 15, 2012 |
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Protein plays role in helping plants see light
Plants do not have eyes or legs, yet they are able to "see" and move toward and away from light. This ability, called phototropism, is controlled by a series of molecular-level signals between proteins inside and between ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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White favoritism by Major League umps lowers minority pitcher performance, pay
When it comes to Major League Baseball's pitchers, the more strikes, the better. But what if white umpires call strikes more often for white pitchers than for minority pitchers?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 07, 2011 |
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New stem-cell treatment: 'Hype is ahead of the science'
Before New York Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon pulled his hamstring while running from the mound to first base on June 11, fans would have been forgiven for thinking he had chugged from the Fountain of Youth.
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Could the Internet spell the end of snow days?
(AP) -- Could the Internet mean the end of snow days? Some schools think so, and they are experimenting with ways for students to do lessons online during bad weather, potentially allowing classes to go on ...
May 18, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: Keeping the young pitcher healthy
Late childhood and early adolescence is a period of a tremendous development for the young elbow. During these years, several growth plates emerge and fuse in a coordinated fashion to assume the anatomy required ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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