Recently, I was watching the Phillies play the Braves on ESPN. Former major league player and manager Bobby Valentine and former player John Kruk emphatically pointed out that it is physically impossible to successfully hit with a level swing because, as Ted Williams pointed out years ago, a pitched ball is traveling down to the hitter.
A week later during a spring training telecast, Ralph Kiner, a Hall of Fame player and great hitter, said it was a pleasure to hear someone publically state the fallacy of swinging level. Hopefully, the belief in swinging down or level will go the way of: “The earth is flat,” and, “The moon is made of green cheese.”
