Will stirofome cups work in baseball.?
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Yeah, until you get hit!
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There is one. At the MLB website. You might need flash for it.
468776
There is something a little bit precarious about pitching from a mound...Stepping forward and down at the batter in the midst of a aggressive pitching motion while wearing cleats.  The throwing mechanics of the pitching motion can mostly be duplicated on flat grounf and allow the recovering pitcher to keep his arm lively while not risking any sort of slip from the pitching rubber.  I liken it to a flight simulator training for pilots before going up in the actual plane.
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According to the NCAA rulebook, no.\n\n\n4.a In the act of delivering the ball, the pitcher must push off with the pivot foot from the pitcher's plate and take one step/stride forward towards the batter and inside the 24-inch length of the pitcher's plate.\n4.b The rear, pivot foot must remain in contact with the pitcher's plate at all times before the forward step.\n...\n4.d.2 ... Once having lost contact with the pitcher's plate, the pivot foot may trail on the ground but may not bear weight again until the pitch is released.\n\nIf I read this correctly, the foot can come off the rubber but the pitcher can't plant the foot to get a second push before the ball is released.\n\nI watched some of the NCAA women tournament and they certainly didn't keep their foot on the rubber.
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trust me if they were smart they would wear a cup in football.  In middle school our coach would walk up and hit us with his clip board to make sure we were wearing a cup.  If they arent in your schools they should make sure the kids do.  (probably not how our coaches did it though)
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I asked my husband this question once; he said those cups are annoying, so they need lots of adjusting. Maybe Mannys cup fits worse than most, or he is just more sensitive than some guys. Lots of players fiddle with theirs, too, not just Manny.
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Yes. Unless you are a Major league baseball player. They are the only ones allowed to do this.
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No.\n\nScientifically speaking. cork or super balls inside of a bat accomplish this: A lighter bat with the same density. So say you use a 32 oz. bat. You'll have it's density but 30 oz. instead. Allows you to turn on the ball faster. So say you're a struggling hitter, just off the DL. You're having trouble catching up to that 95 mph fastball with you're normal bat. Cork it and you gain 5/1000 of a second bat speed and equal response off the bat.\n\nAn edge maybe. Probably mostly psychological.
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The main reason the NCAA uses aluminum bats is expense.  An aluminum bats costs a heck of a lot more than your wooden Louisville Slugger, but it lasts practically forever, while I've seen games (Pirate fan--a little sympathy please) where batters have gone through two or three bats in nine innings.  Thank God that I played Little League back in the Stone Age (actually, Barney Rubble was our star third-baseman) when we used wooden bats.  Call me a;purist, but the sound of aluminum hitting horsehide kinda sucks.  No only that, but an aluminum bat is one big "sweet spot."  If you make contact, you can cream the ball, even if you get jammed on the fists or barely hit it on the end of the bat.  Try that with wood.
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you can put a pitcher in and out at any time...Even in the middle of the count
602202
I am a pitcher.  You want your arm to be really high above your head.  That is a good thing!!  Also make sure that when you release you close your hand because it gives you about 3 mph faster.  TRY IT!!
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Greetings from the Yahoo Brain in New York City!  \nHope you're watching the live Answers webcast at http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\n\nI know many teams employ a seemingly random rotation between the second baseman and the shortstop, so as to keep the opposing batters guessing as to where the hole would be.\n\nHope this helps!\n\n--J.
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they do. don't know where they got that. I use one at the gym. You think people are going to wear their underwear under their gym shorts? And there's a tv commercial out now with this little guy on a football team getting dressed with big guys all around and he picks up a jock strap belonging to someone else and it's HUGE. In football, they have jock straps and you put the cup inside the jock strap. Same for baseball. You think they wear their underwear underneath?
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Rugby, Cricket, miscelaneous martial arts, video game championships, Golf, Billiards,skateboarding, hang gliding, competitive eating, and soon baseball will have a world cup and not be in the olympics.  More I'm sure, but can't think of at the moment.
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Women do play baseball. One woman got as high as double recently. Women lack the upper body strength to play on the same level as men in baseball. Women strong enough to hit it out of the infield, who have the reflexes to hit major league pitching and are fast enough to play a posisition are extremely rare. That one would go through all the publicity and harrassment is even rarer. So if women do find a niche it'll likely be as under arm pitchers. Some ladies softball pitchers can whip a softball close to 100 mph. Not quite the same as doing it in baseball but close enough that you will likely eventually see a woman pitching for a major leage baseball team.
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ask the marlins or mlb to see if you can get that
675659
You will notice a number of catchers in the majors--particularly the long-time veterans--with special wedge-shaped pads that fit behind their knees.  See if you can find a set of these to fit.