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Study suggests preseason shoulder strength may determine injury severity for baseball pitchers
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Athletic injuries can derail any player's ability to compete, but for a baseball pitcher his shoulder strength and control is critical. A new study to be presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's ...
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Applying Newton's Laws of Motion to Baseball Pitching
Apr 07, 2009 |
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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.
Baseball diamonds: the lefthander's best friend
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Baseball diamonds are a left-hander's best friend. That's because the game was designed to make a lefty the "Natural," according to David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University ...
Study finds pitching mound height affects throwing motion, injury risk
Mar 23, 2008 |
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A study involving several Major League Baseball pitchers indicates that the height of the pitcher’s mound can affect the athlete’s throwing arm motion, which may lead to potential injuries because of stress on the shoulder ...
Secret of the carnivorous pitcher plant's slurp -- solved at last
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Jan 28, 2008 |
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Splash! Ooch! Yum! And so another unsuspecting insect victim of Nepenthes alata (N. alata), commonly known as the carnivorous pitcher plant, falls victim to the digestive fluids at the bottom of the plant's ...
Social anxiety disorder a real issue in major league baseball
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 19, 2009 |
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In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs "all the time." But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to ...
Twitter denies settling baseball manager's lawsuit
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Twitter has denied settling a lawsuit with Tony La Russa over the impersonation of the St. Louis Cardinals manager on the micro-blogging service.
How pitching changes little leaguers' shoulders
Oct 04, 2007 |
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At this year's Little League World Series, new rules for the first time forced players to limit the number of times pitchers could throw the ball, and coaches had to strategize how pitchers were used more carefully.
National study finds youth baseball-related injuries down 25 percent
May 26, 2009 |
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Spring marks baseball season for more than 19 million children and adolescents who play each year as part of a team or in backyards throughout the United States. The good news for these players is that the number of injuries ...
Mathematics Professor Says Yankees, Dodgers Should Make World Series
Oct 14, 2009 |
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With the League Championship Series set to begin tomorrow, NJIT Mathematics Professor Bruce Bukiet has, once again, analyzed the probability of each team winning their post-season series. Bukiet updates his calculations ...
Using math model, NJIT professor names MVP and Cy Young award contenders
Oct 15, 2008 |
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NJIT's Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, is now applying his methods to ascertain the players most deserving of major league ...
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