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Selected Physical Fitness Characteristics of Professional Baseball Players
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Differences in Maximal Speed Running Between Baseball Players and Sprinters
… differences in technique between sprinters and baseball players while running at maximal speeds. 20 male NCAA Division I athletes participated; ten members of the track and field team specializing in the 100 m or 200 m sprint or the 100 m hurdles and ten members of the baseball team. Each …
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Comparing baseball players across eras via novel full house modeling
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Relationships between throwing velocity and selected kinematics in youth baseball players
<p>Research investigating baseball position players has been limited primarily to pitchers. The current study examined several kinematic variables and their relationship with ball velocity in middle and high school-aged baseball players using two-dimensional (2D) motion analysis. The purpose of …
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Sporting correspondents: African American baseball players in the Americas, 1910 – 1950
… twentieth century, hundreds of African American baseball players traveled to Latin American nations in search of increased financial opportunities. They left the Negro Leagues as skilled laborers who understood that Mexico and Cuba, for example, valued their athletic abilities and talent. As they …
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Visual Search Strategies of Elite Baseball Players During a Baseball Hitting Task
Baseball batting is a cognitively demanding interceptive timing task that requires precision and power. Due to the quick duration of an at-bat, anticipatory visual cues and predictive eye movements are needed to have an accurate final fixation while initiating bat swing. Previous research has …
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Analysis of Statistical Impact of Steroids in Professional Major League Baseball Players
Rampant steroid usage tainted Major League Baseball (MLB) in the late 1980s, and decades later, steroid usage is still a serious issue. Steroids, along with other illegal substances, have heavily impacted various statistics in professional baseball (Petersen, Jung, & Eugene Stanley, 2008). Many …
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Comparison of three base stealing techniques in Division I collegiate baseball players
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Collegiate Baseball Players’ Perceptions of the Climate and Their Adaptive Baseball Behaviors
… a Caring framework, was to develop an adaptive baseball behavior measure, and to pilot it to examine the relationship between collegiate baseball players’ perceptions of the climate to their engagement in these optimal baseball behaviors. Baseball players (N = 127) completed measures assessing …
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A comparison of isotonic and isokinetic supplemental weight training programs for baseball players
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Difference in Transverse Plane Scapular Position of Professional Baseball Players Relative to Baseball Field Position
… variation of the scaption angle of professional baseball players among field position played. Subjects consisted of 109 minor league professional baseball players reporting for the 2002 spring training season, who were under contract with the Anaheim Angels professional baseball organization. …
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The Effects Of Various Warm-Up Devices on Bat Velocity and Trajectory in Collegiate Baseball Players
… of various weighted warm-up devices on standard baseball bat velocity and trajectory in collegiate baseball players. <strong>Methods: </strong>Three, right-handed hitters (mean age= 19.3yrs ±1.5yrs; height= 1.74m±.13m; mass=81kg ±20.4kg; baseball experience=14.2 ±1.3) volunteered for this study. …
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Amateur baseball players: what are the relative merits of attending college versus going directly to the minor leagues?
… training on the performance of professional baseball players was studied using a secondary dataset consisting of 112 players and five years of play at the Major League level, classified as hitters from the 1990 through 2000 seasons. The study revealed that higher education significantly …
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Exploring the acute affect of de-coupled batting drills on the gaze behaviour and decision-making of elite baseball players
… and gaze behaviour. Twenty-eight elite baseball athletes participated in one of four warm-up drills and subsequently predicted pitch information in an 18 pitch simulation over three progressively harder temporal occlusion conditions. Main effects of occlusion time, F = 5.43, 3.87; p = …
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From the ball fields to Broadway: Performative identities of professional baseball players on the nineteenth and twentieth century American stage
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Formal And Informal Peer Leadership On A High School Varsity Baseball Team: A Qualitative Study Of Peer Leadership Effects On A Varsity Baseball Player’s Motivation And Sense of Team Cohesion
… a player’s sense of team cohesion on a varsity baseball team. This study will provide a data analysis based on one-on-one interviews with varsity baseball players representing one of six high schools in the Portland Oregon Metro-area for data collection. An evidence-based solution will be …
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The effect of holographic bracelets on balance
… on an Athlete’s balance. Ten male high school baseball players performed modified Star Excursion Balance Test. The test measured maximal reach distance in anterior, posteromedial, posterolateral directions. The first trial was a control trial and other trials were performed with either the …
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Former Major League Baseball (MLB) players and athletic identity
… of their professional careers, Major League Baseball (MLB) players are considered the best in the world at their sport. For these men, athletic identity is the dominating force in their lives, yet all MLB players must eventually retire from the sport that has defined their lives for so long. …
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Effects of yoga on physical characteristics on NCAA division I baseball athletes
<p>Among baseball athletes, joint range of motion (ROM) is considered an important physical characteristic with respect to injury prevention and performance. Professional and intercollegiate programs employ various methods of flexibility training; however, to date, no literature exists with regard …
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