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Could Ireland be better at world sports if it wasn't for GAA?

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  • #302
    summerskin
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    preddy wrote: »
    Would Hurlers make good Baseball players? Untapped market me thinks.

    No. They hold the hurley with the hands in the wrong grip, no other sport hold it "upside down" that way as it's harder to generate power but better for "flicking" the ball, also it's quite different hitting a ball out of your hand to hitting one pitched at 100mph.

    Cricketers, on the other hand, yes. Just search for Ian Botham at the LA Dodgers.


  • #303
    Reindeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    summerskin wrote: »
    No. They hold the hurley with the hands in the wrong grip, no other sport hold it "upside down" that way as it's harder to generate power but better for "flicking" the ball, also it's quite different hitting a ball out of your hand to hitting one pitched at 100mph.

    Cricketers, on the other hand, yes. Just search for Ian Botham at the LA Dodgers.

    Do not some Hurley players also do Rounders?

    The main difficulties for Cricketers switching to Baseball is learning to read the ball/pitch, the different manner in which the bat is swung, and the relatively complex and changing manner in how a baseball play develops - requiring one make split second decisions as to where the ball or baserunner needs to be at a particular time. Also, unlike in Cricket, if a batter/batsman in baseball puts the ball in play, he is forced to run to base regardless of how well-hit that ball is. Thus even the best batters are usually only getting to base 3/10 times at bat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrpyBrbu8co

    Some of the split second strategy:
    http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=24915979

    http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=24853335&topic_id=34874412&c_id=mlb

    Double plays:
    http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?topic_id=9991168 good at 1:30 onwards


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