Batting performance of wood and metal baseball bats

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1675-1684

  Crisco, Joseph J ^a   Greenwald, Richard M ^a   Blume, Jeffrey D ^a   Penna, Lorraine H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ball speed; Biomechanics; Field study; Sports

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WOOD;

EID: 0036789784     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-200210000-00021     Document Type: Article

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