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At the heart of this site is a new book available through Amazon, Hitting Secrets from Baseball’s Graveyard, by Dr. John Harris.  The book seeks to unearth the techniques of “strikers” who routinely logged 600+ at-bats in the 1890’s and first two decades of the twentieth century while fanning perhaps a couple of dozen times… Continue reading About

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Please write us with your comments, queries, and requests.  Caustic criticism is also not unheard-of… but we don’t have time to trade broadsides.

Why Us?

We’re just starting out in the game of spreading new ideas (or, in this case, very old ideas long forgotten).  What’s clearly against us is that we have no history in professional coaching. What’s clearly in our favor is that we have no history in professional coaching.   The guy who first insisted that doctors… Continue reading Why Us?

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It seems that nobody understands spread hands any more; even Ted Williams brushed them aside in his classic manual. But on a long bat, spread hands working in a “parallel reverse” fashion can produce a sudden burst of amazing speed with almost no assistance from the rest of the body.

 

Old-School Hitting from the Hands Down

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The low sidearm/high submarine angle requires strong legs rather than long ones and taps the core power often more abundant in compact body types.

 

Giant Pitching Success from a Short, Broad Frame