Bat

The crowd loves a batter who can hit sixes. If you want to hit the ball as fast and far as possible, should you use a light or heavy bat? That's an age old question with plenty of answers, but which is the correct answer? Light bats can be swung faster than heavy bats, but only about 10% faster (for the usual range of bat weights). Imagine hypothetically that the bat weighs 10 grams - light as a feather. If you swing it as fast as possible, you might get the tip to travel at say 160 km/hr. Now double

‘The Bat’ – Theodore Roethke: By day the bat is cousin to the mouse. He likes the attic of an aging house. His fingers make a hat about his head. His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead. He loops in crazy figures half the night Among the trees that face the corner light. But when he brushes up against a screen, We are afraid of what our eyes have seen: For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face. Theodore Roethke’s poem ‘The Bat’ clearly

it is like to be a bat by first allowing us to try to imagine what it is like to be a bat. We must attempt to imagine what it is like to be a bat, we imagine that we have wings, that we have no vision, that we use sonar sensors etc. But these are all things we know as humans that bats have. This is the objective experience of the bat, we can imagine as a human what it is like to be a bat but we cannot imagine as a bat what it is like to be a bat, simply because we are not bats. As a human I can have

As stated by Thomas Nagel in his paper “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable (Reference). By this, he means that the relationships between the subject mind and the objective physical body are difficult to control or to deal with. Nagel states that without consciousness the problem seems less interesting, and with it, it seems impossible (Reference). Reduction has been a common method to attempt to link the relationship between the mind

It was towards the end of the game. There was one inning left in the game between the Mudville 9 and the Grandville 10. It was 4-2 score with grandville in the lead. And we still had yet to put Casey at bat. Cooney struck out, after him Burrows did the same. I thought, Do not put Casey at the bat, or else it will be the end for us, I can feel it. So Flynn went, struck the ball and as Flynn always does, he runs to single, the only base he has ever gotten himself to. Then Jimmy Blake went and hit

HOMERUN!!! By: Aiden Bischoff Bam!!! The ball slammed into the bat sending vibrations into my arm. I watched as it flew across the yard and hit the the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street. Me and my family had gone up north to visit my grandparents place during the summer. During that day my dad and my brother brother Allan decided to play baseball. At the time I didn't want to play and I didn't really know how to play, so I just watched them play for a while. About 5 minutes had

manufactures and sells baseball bats based in Louisville, Kentucky. They have been selling baseball bats made of wood for over one hundred and twenty years. Louisville Slugger is a section of a company named Hillerich and Bradsby. Hillerich and Bradsby started with the wooden baseball bat, but started to branch off into other sectors like golf and other baseball equipment. They both thrived because of a man named John A.(Bud) Hillerich who invented the wooden baseball bat in 1884 that players use today

First of all, I have been swinging a baseball bat since I was around 4 or 5 and it has allowed me to strengthen my swing and make it more powerful. Because I have been swinging a bat for so long I will be able to use other weapons like small maces and swords. Second, of all, I have a very accurate throw. I have been throwing a baseball since I was 4 or 5 and my accuracy

had worked so hard for? How do you for one second think it was alright to swing a baseball bat at my head and take my belongings? Not only does this hurt me physically, but it does physiologically as well. Now, because of you I have the feeling to be constantly looking over my shoulder where ever I go. I have consistent headaches from where you thought it was okay to hit my over the head with a baseball bat.

baseball, a bat, a glove, protective equipment, and a uniform. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, and Sammy Sosa have made a living out of using these tools to play baseball, but there are also a great number of people who play baseball as a source of enjoyment. The crack of the bat connecting with a fastball, the slap of the ball on the mitt, and the roar of the crowd after a homerun are all common sounds of a baseball game. The thing that many people may not realize, however, is that the bat, ball, and