Physics Of Baseball Essay

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The game of baseball is a great game and is open to anyone that wants to play it. There is many way that baseball can be played. Baseball can be played but be called different things like wiffle ball, and stick ball. Also, baseball is a great sport because you stay active while you play. In addition baseball was made along time ago and the they use two different types of bats. There is lots of physics that goes into baseball and many pitches people can throw.
The game of baseball started a long time ago and it was a lot different than it is now. Baseball was said to be invented 1839 by a man named Abner Doubleday. Abner was in the military. He served in the Mexican American and the Seminole wars. He also fought in the Civil war at Fort Sumter. He invented the game in Cooperstown, New York, which is now the site of the
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One example of the physics of baseball is when it comes into hitting the baseball. If you're trying to hit a fastball at 90 MPH your reaction time is going to be under .28 seconds. The sweet spot is the area on the bat that is right in the center of the barrel of the bat. Hitting the ball on the sweet spot of the bat will make that ball go farther. Velocity of the thrown ball will also affect how far and how hard the ball comes off of the bat. Velocity is the rate of an object and the direction it goes. Speed is the distance between an object, and velocity is distance traveled by an object per unit time in a particular direction. There is a ton of physics that goes into baseball and is why many people say that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports.
Baseball was a great sport that abner doubleday made there have been many changes and many thing that they have added to the game. They have added aluminum bat instead of people always using wood. And all the pitches the pitchers throw that are good. Finally baseball a great sport that everyone should try

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