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October 14, 2011

Strange But True!

Q. Can you put some numbers on what might constitute “the perfect baseball pitch”?

A. A pro baseball pitcher's delivery is the most violent human motion ever measured in a lab, says biomechanicist Glenn Fleisig of the American Sports Medicine Institute, who since 1989 has studied more than a thousand pitchers, as reported by Josh Dean in Wired magazine.


 
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