Baseball athletic test: A baseball-specific test battery

Strength and Conditioning Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 26-29

  Spaniol, Frank J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; Bat speed; Batted ball velocity; Testing; Throwing velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249156708     PISSN: 15241602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/SSC.0b013e31819d3af8     Document Type: Article

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