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  2. The Baseball Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    With the advent of the Internet, the need for baseball reference books diminished. The final version of The Baseball Encyclopedia, the 10th, came out in 1996. [10] Jeanine Bucek was the lead editor of that edition. IDG Books purchased the book's rights from Simon & Schuster, which had bought Macmillan.

  3. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    The reference is to Bugs Bunny, the animated cartoon character, who is depicted employing such a pitch in the cartoon Baseball Bugs. As Trevor Hoffman 's changeup evolved into an all-world weapon, his pitching teammates were in awe of it, much like many hitters were.

  4. Contact hitter - Wikipedia

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    Low-strikeout and high-batting average players have existed throughout the history of baseball, but players first began to achieve stardom as contact hitters in the 1970s. Rod Carew was one of the first contact hitter superstars of this era, claiming the 1977 American League MVP with a .388 batting average for the Minnesota Twins .

  5. Kyle Boddy - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, Boddy started a blog called Driveline Mechanics. It relied heavily on the theories of former Major League Baseball pitcher Mike Marshall.To test out his own theories, Boddy created his own biomechanics lab in Seattle, which included high-speed cameras, EMG sensors, force plates, inertial measurement units, and a device to measure elbow torque. [3]

  6. Batting (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner , to drive runners home or to advance runners along the bases for others to drive home, but the techniques ...

  7. Overhand throw - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the stride is to increase the distance over which linear and angular trunk motions occur, allowing more energy to be produced and transferred up the body. [2] The stride step is performed while raising the throwing arm back to the point of maximum external shoulder rotation. At this point the arm is fully “cocked”.

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  9. Batting average (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    The main article linked above is sourced from Baseball-Reference.com, which is also presented here. None of the players listed below are still living; each is an inductee of the Baseball Hall of Fame, except for Lefty O'Doul, Pete Browning, and Shoeless Joe Jackson (who is ineligible due to his alleged role in the Black Sox Scandal of 1919).