Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Angular Motion and Softball Pitching

Another of my hobbies is following women's college softball (and, yes, I have a blog on that, too). The big event of the year, the Women's College World Series, begins Thursday. One aspect I find interesting is that many of the dominant pitchers are very tall. Many of you are probably familiar with the underhand delivery of fastpitch softball, which implicates angular motion. The question is, does longer arm length lead to faster pitches? I address that question on my college softball blog.