Baseball Technology
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The crack of a bat stirs emotions in many people. It is a sound that most everyone in America knows. After all, baseball is the national pastime. It has been for a long time, and will be for just as long. Unfortunately, professional baseball, as well as most organized baseball games, is heading in a direction that is slowing taking the fun out of the game. Professional baseball was once a true 'sport', but today, the truest example of baseball as a sport is the game being played out back in the dirt field by the local youth. The kids play with a simple bat, bought down at the local store. They swing as fast and as accurately as they can, at a pitch sent to them by any number of kids. Upon actually hitting a ball, they run as fast as possible to first base. Major League Baseball does most of this as well you might say, but let's look a little closer...