Batting with Ted Williams from 16mm film by R&M Video
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2012
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There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.
Look at how he's all about form. Nothing fancy. Just a clean swing that's rooted in the basic mechanics of baseball. He doesn't wave his bat around, he doesn't flip it, he just plays the game.
This is awesome! Thanks for posting!
I’m a former baseball player and now I play an ancient Irish sport called hurling. To score I have to self pitch the ball to myself and I’ve been watching his advice to improve my swing. It’s been really helpful actually. Especially when he talks about cutting up when you swing and how to chose the right bat. A hurling stick is made of ash and it’s about the size and weight of a baseball bat.
My 6 yo became obsessed with hitting a couple weeks ago, when he connected on sweet spot with wiffle ball bat. So Loaded up on used baseballs and tennis balls , and he’s been at about an hour a day . Try not coach him much because want it to stay fun, and he’s got good natural mechanics , but showed him this video today , and likely will about 25 times more this year . It’s basically all you need to know about hitting a baseball .
Holy sh*t! I'm 43 years old and this is the greatest video I've ever seen! I literally can't believe I'm watching and listening to Ted F-ing Williams giving my 9 year old son hitting advice. I HATE technology...but it's moment like these I do appreciate it. The greatest hitter of all times still lives thanks to videos like these! Awesome great amazing unbelievable video.
Looks and sounds like this guy knows what he's doing. LOL!!! The Splendid Splinter...The greatest hitter ever!!!
One of the greatest fighter pilots in WW-II and Korean War fighter piloits.
Ted Williams and Josh Donaldson are the only hitters that have helped me get better at batting. I legit feel more power when I began using their advice.
Williams sets the record at .406, one of sports' all time greatest records, still standing after over 80 years😳, right up there with Wilt's 100 and Pistol's averaging 44 at LSU. Just INCREDIBLE human achievements.
If Ted were playing today he would still be the best hitter in baseball. He would make whatever adjustment he needed to make to hit today's pitchers. The same type adjustments he made against certain pitchers when he played. Most haven't studied Ted's material enough to truly understand what he did when he hit. You'll never figure out what he did by just reading his book "TSOH". You really need to throw out your current belief system on hitting and view his material with a completely open mind. The guy was the Einstein of hitting. He understood bio-mechanics and how the human body naturally works. That's why his swing looks so fluid. He didn't let anyone coach out the natural movements needed to hit a baseball well.
I remember reading the sports section of the local paper when Ted Williams hit a home run in his last at bat before he retired. I was 15. I wish I had kept the article.
Great video. I was 11 in 1960 when he played his last game. Williams was one of my heroes. We could never get enough batting practice because of the logistical problems of pitching and htting a baseball, so we worked out a good training system. We'd take a wiffle bat and ball and pitch at full speed from 25-30 feet. If you've got a good arm the ball comes in pretty fast at that distance. And the ball does crazy things being full of holes and so light. We'd do that until it got easy and then switch to a wooden bat. It developed quick reactions, wrist speed and power, and the ability to track the ball very quickly. if you got so you could hit the ball consistently with the wood bat, the biggest problem when you got in a game was waiting on the pitch. The ball seemed to take forever to get to you from 60 feet.
I also helped that Williams had amazing eyesight. He could tell exactly where on the baseball he made contact. Once he did an experiment where he coated the barrel of his bat with pine tar. Then he would call the spot he made contact with, and it was compared to the mark on the ball. He would say things like, right across the seam...half inch below the seam...hit on top of the ball, etc. And the mark on the ball would confirm exactly what he said on each pitch.
San Diego born and raised baby! Go Ted aka The Kid. Interesting fact his Mexican-American uncle who played semi pro ball showed him as a young child. ⚾️💪🏻 🇺🇸🇲🇽
When Baseball was Baseball! ❤
One of my favorite all-time players who certainly has words of wisdom for batters thank you for sharing and God bless from Patrick
Amazing how modern his hitting was. Decades above everyone else.
Greatest swing of all time!! Simple & Sweet!
He was quite the physical specimen ...built for pro ball ...all around American hero ⚾️🏆👨✈️