If college women are pitching softballs at the 65-72mph range and college men are pitching baseballs at 80-95mph (fastball) and between 55-85mph for all others, is there a reason women haven't moved to the baseball?
Is there a benefit to women sticking with the underhanded, fast-pitched, larger ball?
ETA- There is a significant difference in distance between home plate to the mound for them (43' v 60.5'), but I don't think that'd be enough to justify the sticking with the underhanded "spin" pitch versus just making the move to hardball.
The upper body musculature of women is enough different (meaning less) that throwing an effective overhand fastball is pretty much impossible.
As far as I think I know.
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Rich wrote:The upper body musculature of women is enough different (meaning less) that throwing an effective overhand fastball is pretty much impossible.
As far as I think I know.
There's a GIF of a young lady throwing a football over at reddit, she has quite an arm:
Indeed she does. At least while stepping into the throw.
A weak government usually remains a servant of citizens, while a strong government usually becomes the master of its subjects.
- paraphrased from several sources
Steamforger wrote:If college women are pitching softballs at the 65-72mph range and college men are pitching baseballs at 80-95mph (fastball) and between 55-85mph for all others, is there a reason women haven't moved to the baseball?
Is there a benefit to women sticking with the underhanded, fast-pitched, larger ball?
ETA- There is a significant difference in distance between home plate to the mound for them (43' v 60.5'), but I don't think that'd be enough to justify the sticking with the underhanded "spin" pitch versus just making the move to hardball.
The fastest ever baseball fast-ball by a women pitcher is in the low 80's. I think it is like 105+ for men. The difference in bone/muscle structure is too much to overcome.
I will not say that there will never be a female pitcher in MLB, but if so she will be a soft throwing pitcher with a knuckle ball, submarine pitch, something off the wall.
Steamforger wrote:If college women are pitching softballs at the 65-72mph range and college men are pitching baseballs at 80-95mph (fastball) and between 55-85mph for all others, is there a reason women haven't moved to the baseball?
Is there a benefit to women sticking with the underhanded, fast-pitched, larger ball?
ETA- There is a significant difference in distance between home plate to the mound for them (43' v 60.5'), but I don't think that'd be enough to justify the sticking with the underhanded "spin" pitch versus just making the move to hardball.
The fastest ever baseball fast-ball by a women pitcher is in the low 80's. I think it is like 105+ for men. The difference in bone/muscle structure is too much to overcome.
I will not say that there will never be a female pitcher in MLB, but if so she will be a soft throwing pitcher with a knuckle ball, submarine pitch, something off the wall.
I think stature also has something to do with it, e.g. 6'10" Randy Johnson throwing 90 mph sliders and 100+ fastballs in his prime
Finally stopped procrastinating and took my MO CCW training class. It's a state requirement. Involves classroom training on related law, familiarization with firearms, and a range portion where you have to show basic safety and competence.
Small class, only 3 of us. All of us were already familiar with guns, just finally getting our CCWs. Let me tell you how much I enjoyed spending a day in a room with gun people.
And the instructor was cool, he skipped over some stuff that was really too basic for us and spent extra time on some really interesting 'more advanced' stuff - mainly extra shoot/don't shoot scenarios we talked out, including a few he had devised to be deliberately challenging.
The range portion was interesting. The requirement is, take 20 shots at a human silhouette target at 7 yards, and get at least 15 hits in the black. We each took 20 practice shots, with the instructor giving us pointers as appropriate, then took our 20 official test shots.
Long story short - that's an easy requirement, of the 60 shots we collectively took only 1 landed outside the 10 ring, and that just barely. Wasn't me, somehow I slightly out shot them (tighter group) and they were teasing me about it.
Anyway, now I need to give the St Charles County Police some money, and start wasting money on holsters that turn out to be unsuitable. (I don't even *own* a holster, unless my Safepacker counts.)
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