We often hear about how a ball player is trying to beat, or has beaten, Babe Ruth's hit record, but have they really beat it? Is hitting a baseball with a metal bat the same as with a wooden bat? Also, are today's baseballs designed exactly the same as in the Babe's time?
2007-06-25 08:23:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
No.
2007-07-01 19:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by slambag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the baseballs are made similar to the ones ruth had to play with. No hitting a ball with a metal bat is so much differant than using a wooden bat. A ball hit by a metal bat is coming off the metal bat almost twice as fast.
2007-06-29 16:42:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. many many comprehensive studies have shown a ball goes faster, farther, and with more velocity coming off of a metal bat than a wood bat. but that has NOHTING to do with Ruth
hitting a ball with a metal bat is NOT the same as hitting it with a wooden bat. a metal bat head follows the knob through the zone. a wooden bat head is denser and falls via gravity. it must be swung through the zone by the player. it is more difficult to get a wood bat through the zone than a metal bat
and baseballs today are designed to go farther than in the past. they are lighter and have a larger cork denter
but i still dont see how Ruth comes into this
2007-06-25 08:38:39 · answer #3 · answered by TheSandMan 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many studies have been conducted to compare the differences, please see the attached for one study. Although Ruth never used a metal bat, the wooded bats manufactured today are far better than the bats used years ago. The same goes for baseballs.
2007-06-25 08:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, here is one.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12370571
If you're interested in finding more studies, go to www.scirus.com, search for 'baseball bats' with only the 'Journal Sources' checked.
And Babe Ruth is the Fake Fat Stinko? That doesn't even make any sense. He's one of the greatest players of all time. He practically saved the game of baseball back in the 1920s. You obviously are not a baseball fan if you cannot appreciate that.
2007-06-25 08:34:10 · answer #5 · answered by JJ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. Babe Ruth doesn't own any hit records.
2. Today's professional players don't use metal bats, and they never did as far as I know.
3. Baseballs have changed dramatically since the Fake Fat-Stinko was hitting them.
2007-06-25 08:28:28 · answer #6 · answered by GOB BLUTH 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most HS and College teams use metal bats. we had a team in our state refuse to use metal bats after one of their pitchers died from a linedrive in a game. They even asked most opps to use wooden bats against them and some complied. I think all baseball leagues should be wooden for the protection of the players. on a side note if the oppising team didnt agree to use wooden bats they would forfit the game. i thought that was a neat story myself
2016-05-20 00:47:28 · answer #7 · answered by francisco 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dont hit with metal bats and no they arent the same nor are the balls
2007-07-02 16:30:56 · answer #8 · answered by nick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only one that i know of isone that i saw on tv that proved they had different sweet spots
2007-07-02 12:07:07 · answer #9 · answered by pi=3.141597378 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋