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| Sept. 16 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | Thanks to Mike Kelly, I was at AT&T Park, aka PacBell Park in San Francisco a couple of days ago to witness the last stop of a softball homerun hitting exhibition which featured players using bats from companies like Miken, Worth and Mizuno. The guys were using .47 525 Miken balls. Jeff Hall, using the Jeff Hall Worth bat was up first. They all had fifteen pitches from the same pitcher with 2 warm ups. Jeff hit his 2 warm ups about 200 to 250 into left. I remember thinking I don't think he's going to do very well as the fence in left goes from 340 to 400 as it moves toward center field. Then, the first pitch that counted came in and Jeff hit a ball that went 450 to 475, 3/4 the way up the bleachers and I began screaming involuntarily like a little kid who just saw his first home run. He went on to hit 3 balls that cleared the bleachers, one of which went too far over to see where it landed. I've never seen balls hit like that in my life. A guy named McGraw batted last using a Combat bat and hit 10 with the last one counting as a money ball for 2 beating Jeff 10 to 9 to win the competition. I don't know when/if/how anyone can get the tape of those shots or if a DVD is coming out or what but I'm more inspired, now, after seeing those monsters and their shots than ever before about hitting the ball hard and long. Interestingly to me, 85 to 90 per cent of all the balls hit out were line drives that just kept rising and going. |
| Sept. 22 4x4 Men's 65 601 posts | Einstein, I had looked forward to seeing that but unfortunately was about 9,000 miles away for family stuff. I saw them on a weekly show called softball 360 and they were hitting balls in San Diego to the roof of the building down the left field line. Makes our efforts look pretty puny doesn't it? I wonder just how jacked up those bats are or whether they're just a bunch of corn fed old boys that were born to hit the ball. The web site for softball 360 might have some possibilities for getting a DVD. They were at a bunch of MLB parks this year. Wonder what the MLB big guns thought of it - or how they would do. Way back when Willie McCovey would play softball sometimes in the off season and at that time everyone was talking about a shot he hit out of the metro field in San Mateo, Ca. about half way up an office building across El Camino Real. I know you know the territory. |
