Falls, Pumps, Lunges: Some Nineteenth-Century Elements Resurfacing Today

Dr. John Harris of SmallBallSuccess.com finds that some of the more exotic loads and weight shifts in contemporary hitting (cf. Cory Bellinger and Ronald Acuna, Jr.) resonate with techniques as deeply embedded in the past as what we glimpse in Zack Wheat--and even carry us to nineteenth-century strikers like Sam Thompson and King Kelly.

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